TKC's favorite game: Find the Black people at "popular" downtown attractions!!!
The KC Rag Forum hosts some pretty great photos of Memorial Day Weekend's "Celebration at the Station."
But here's something that most folks ignore or don't want to recognize: Whenever there is a "popular" or "successful" downtown event it's usually all white.
The Memorial Day Celebration and the Crossroads First Fridays are the first two examples that come to mind . . . I've been to both of these events and every time I'm there, I literally count the infinitesimal number of Black people I see in order to pass the time . . . If I have company I make a game of it and the first person who gets to ten gets a soda or somesuch.
Anyway, the point is that I understand how the Crossroads keeps away minorities given that bad art is akin to Country Music in confusing the tastes of a demographic that hasn't historically shown much enthusiasm for highbrow hipster posing. However, it's a shame to think that more Black people don't attend the Memorial Day festivities given that Black people are just as patriotic as anyone inasmuch as they also want Mexicans out of the country.
Anyway, I've been to so many so-called "popular" Downtown attractions and the lack of diversity is appalling . . . So I suggest that an elaborate and expensive outreach effort is necessary in order to ensure that we truly are "One KC" (ugh) and the so called downtown renaissance isn't just a conspiracy to remove all of the minorities from the urban core . . . Which is what it looks like from what I see.
posted by Tony Permalink
I saw one passed out at a bus stop on my way home.
Where you the only Mexican there?
Same goes for the Amy Thompson run yesterday in Brookside.
But on the bright side, Tony, I didn't hear about any mass shootings at the Memorial Day party.
Maybe to attract more diversity, they should announce a hadgun giveaway at some downtown event. That would surely bring the Raytown rednecks and the Eastside Gangbangers out en masse.
Should we bus black folks in to satisfy Tony?
That game is called "Lookin for Leon" a nice spin off of Where's Waldo.
Black people don't go to the KC Symphony Celebration at the station, hipster art gallery first friday openings, or 'jog'.
Big shocker.
Mixed Crowd events downtown off the top of my head: Car Show, NAIA tourney at Municipal, 18th annual International Arts & World Music Festival at Liberty Memorial.
Likewise there was like one white person at the community fair near 12th and the Paseo this weekend. I guess it works both ways.
It is called cultural differance. Nothing right or wrong about that.
"I've been to so many so-called "popular" Downtown attractions and the lack of diversity is appalling"
I'm not saying you're wrong but go to the City Market on a saturday. Please.
points well taken above, but...
i think your next to the last line sums it up - 'cept it isn't just minorities - it is all poor people - and the homeless... nice renaissance, huh?
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