https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article315235743.html
In the “too stupid to make up category”
A black business owner wants to open up a concept night club in the area by the KC Current soccer stadium.
A group of overbearing white, female Karens decide that the name he has decided on may cause discomfort to other black people.
They are concerned that the name of a hip hop club “Sundown” may cause PTSD and evoke memories of “sundown towns”.
So now, due to the controversy, the gentleman that was going to open the has chosen not to open it at all.
Well done ladies!! You showed him that you know better for him than he know for himself!
I had to look up what a sundown town was.
And no offense, but you are old.
No one who would go to a hip hop club in that area is going to know what one is.
My daughter is of the age that goes to that area of town, and she would in no way, shape or form relate that name to racism.
I had to look it up too, and lived here from 1959 until 1996.
Oildale, CA
- Listed in the California sundown town map.
- Long‑documented history of racial exclusion and KKK activity.
I was aware of the activity during that time but never heard of it called Sundown town.
McCarley on the map too.
Porterville, CA (Tulare County, but close to Kern)
- Appears in the California sundown town map.
If a blackman wants to use the term for their club. So be it.
The own I grew up in was a sundown town. Many cities were.
As long as they play this song.
So will a honky tonk open in it’s place?
Thank you but I’m very aware my city was a sundown town. It last until the 1980’s to some degree.
Since I outed the wall of shame where I lived for all those years, this is the wall of fame.
The Oildale Wall of Fame
A community landmark celebrating Oildale’s most influential figures:
- Buck Owens
- Merle Haggard
- Kevin Harvick
I would venture a guess that a honky tonk will not make money in that area of town.
But someone other than me is more than welcome to give it a try,
Some friends of my daughters took her to that area of town a couple of months ago for her birthday and we showed up as a surprise to have a drink and pay the tab. It is a very “hipster” type of area for your definitely under 30 (probably under 25) crowd.
Guess Oildale is where I got my personality from. 
The Oildale Environment: Hard Work, Hard Times, and Honesty
Oildale has long been known for:
- Oil‑field labor culture — long hours, physical work, and a no‑nonsense attitude.
- Working‑class neighborhoods where families often struggled but stuck together.
- A reputation for being “rough around the edges,” which residents often embrace with pride.
- A strong sense of local identity, reinforced by community landmarks like the new Oildale Wall of Fame.
This environment shaped the worldview of its artists and athletes: 
You don’t wait for opportunity—you fight for it. You stay humble, because nothing is guaranteed. You stay authentic, because pretending won’t get you far here.
Love all three of them
I only said that with my tongue in my cheek.
Thanks parrot, you beat me to it.
I kind of figured.
It is actually a kind of thriving area for what it is trying to be.
It’s always surreal watching pampered white people interfere in the lives of black people and insist it’s for their own good.
Stop picking on Democrats already.
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Democrats have always loved telling black people what to do, how to think, etc.
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Haggard grew up in Oildale. Buck, not so much. There was a fight about where Merle Haggard Dr. was going to go, but Oildale finally won because it had the more legitimate claim.