KC needs its own Racism Museum

A few days ago, I wrote of a new museum in Michigan that is a "Racism Museum." My opinion then and now is that, like a museum on the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, it was a great, if somewhat possibly disturbing idea. I can't think of a better way to bring racism and its existence and persistence in our society and all its ugliness out into the light. People need to see both what used to exist and be tolerated and then, what still exists. If Kansas City is anything, to this day, it is still a very deeply divided city, racially, and far too many of us don't know our past. They could show the clauses in the JC Nichols housing and mortgage contracts that said the houses in whatever development couldn't be sold to African-Americans, along with a great deal more of much worse things.It really would be an eye-opener and good education. I've decided where it should be, too, for best effect. It should be on 47th street, coming out of the Plaza, right at Troost. No other street in this town divides this city any more than that one and this way it could be close to the very successful Country Club Plaza and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, etc. It would be a great idea and it is, frankly, long overdue. (One problem with it is that, likely, the wrong people wouldn't go to see it. Links: http://moravings.blogspot.com/2012/04/great-idea-new-museum-on-racism-in.html; http://news.yahoo.com/newest-michigan-museum-showcases-racist-artifacts-070835385.html