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      <title>Comments On: America&apos;s Pub is out of Westport
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Saferalready]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I remember when in the 90s westport had a Modern Liberal Hippy College kid vibe. The shadow was IMHO the BEST club XO was also cool.
        
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      <![CDATA[America's Pub was cool until they went Gangsta. The Shadow however was WAY better.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bet none of you here are old enough to remember the mid 1980's bar called the HEART-THROB down in west port back in 1986 era. Thats when you could go down there and actually have a night of fun without all the stupid RAP/ HIP-HOP Gangsta B.S. these young degenerate Black Punks are into that totally Ruin everything ! If anybodys noticed, just about every single Venue their involved in has had to be shut down by city officials because of their out of control behavior and Violence, from the bar in Merriam in 2007, to the bar at 435 & bannister to that one club they shut down last fall, to this stupid Americas Pub your all talking about, Don't know whats going on with todays young under 25 Black Youth, but their definetly hanging themselves with their actions, and they seem to want to blame everybody else but themselves and they clearly are NOT responsible for their actions they'll tell ya or have you believe, its somebody else Fault as usual !
        
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      <![CDATA[For the record, saying America's Pub was full of hundreds upon hundreds of black dudes in baggy ass white t-shirts isn't racist. I mean seriously?
        
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      <![CDATA[I've been in KC for a while now. From 97-2002 & then again from 2008 onward.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why are people so afraid of the truth? If the truth hurts...
        
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      <![CDATA[Westport used to be so much better and seems to have sort of lost its way. Moved away 16 uears ago and was back in KC over the holidays and the place just seemed so destitute, a bit raggedy and boarded up.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kemet Voteforthephantom Coleman]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Whoever wrote this article walks the fine line very gracefully. Hats off to you!
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm 24. I've lived in Westport and I've been going to the bars there since I was 21.
        
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      <![CDATA[It would be better and safer if all bars and nightclubs shut down. All they do is encourage alcohlism and people to drive drunk.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Smart Alex]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What I imagine Westport could be is already in place at West 39th Street: a collection of unique shops and restaurants embedded firmly into a safe neighborhood. As far as Westport being an "entertainment district," P + L clearly fills that void.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[love kc]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Good riddenns to AP. Westport has been going down hill ever since they opened.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Troost]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This Article isn't racist. If you have lived around this area long enough, you know the description of this place is pretty much dead on.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[SourGrapes]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[one less crappy "bar" in westport - Nevermind about the supposed "racist undertones" to this article. Whomever wants to bitch about it, in an online forum, are just as ignorant as their insults.
        
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      <![CDATA[Andrew: I hadn't heard anything like that about Missie B's .. I can't say that the location would be much better.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[NotRacist]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The article is not racist. He talks about perceptions of the bar and then gives facts about it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sauce816,  <br>
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A) The author is talking about ONE club, not many. <br>
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B) The views of Many Kansas Citians?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Sauce816]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Calm down people...clearly the author of this piece is trying to project the stereotypes many Kansas Citians have about clubs that cater to a largely black clientele. While ignorant, those are real perspectives within our community that shape opinions powerfully.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just out of curiosity, has anyone else heard that Missie B's might be interested in the location?
        
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      <![CDATA[It seems the aurthur of this article is scared of a sterotype for african americans. Euston was white and he was the aggressor..failed to mention that in your racist story sir.
        
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      <![CDATA["As anyone with even a peripheral knowledge of the dynamics in Westport can tell you, sometime around the beginning of this millennium, America's Pub began attracting an African-American crowd that gradually earned a reputation for unruly, sometimes violent, behavior." <br>
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Last time I checked, unruly behavior tends to happen at any place with any race of people, at any time.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bring back the Shadow? The party after Lollapalooza 91 with Siouxie and Trent in attendance was, as they say, epic.
        
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      <![CDATA[This article is racist. That kid wasn't "fatally punched", he was belligerently drunk and hit his head after he got punched for being an asshole, grabbing a girlfirend's ass.
        
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      <![CDATA[With comments like that, I'd say Mike Tiffany probably supports Rick Santorum.
        
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      <![CDATA[reminder about the euston tragedy: griswold was found NOT GUILTY of involuntary manslaughter for punching a kid that was harrassing him & his girlfriend and whose alcohol limit was FOUR times the legal limit
        
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