KCTV5: A group of local ministers call for change in the enforcement of the dress code at the Power and Light District.
Jesus, I'm glad that the tide seems to have turned against the money losing dress codes and people no longer support money losing P&L District elitist hype.
Hmmm, how about an apology Tony to all the mainstream (ie, white) news agencies in Kansas City you implied were racist for not reporting this story? All local TV stations have been all over this story today. Honestly, they have all been covering it pretty consistently for a few weeks now since the city released the results of its undercover operation to see who was admitted to P&L and who wasn't.
ReplyDeleteTony's never honest about anything re the P&L
ReplyDeleteIf we agree to turn the Power and Light District over to the gangbangers, can we have Westport back?
ReplyDeleteCue stage left the eastside black reverends ...
ReplyDelete6:12 you dipshit.
ReplyDeleteTony has been on top of this story way before mainstream media.
Fuckin losers.
I should know, we all read his blog first.
"If we agree to turn the Power and Light District over to the gangbangers, can we have Westport back?"
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Hey, 8:36, no need for name calling.
ReplyDeleteFYI, something is NOT news simply because Tony, or anyone else, says it is. A news story is something that builds over time as something called EVIDENCE mounts. I personally believed the P&L restrictions were going to be a racial hot button as soon as they were passed and was against them. However, until there becomes a body of evidence, provable, actionable evidence againt a bad policy, all statments are just conjecture, and no mainstream news agency worth its salt is going to report on pure opinion or conjecture.
Tony was/is free all he wants to rail against the policy he believes in unfair, its his blog. However, calling outside news agencies racist because they can't report or act on conjecture, heresay, or innuendo is an unfair shot at them. Tony, as an independent blogger, can say things news COMPANIES with bosses and shareholders cannot. That was my point.
Now, thankfully, those against the P&L restrictions have some actionable evidence of racially motivated restrictions in place and they are acting on it. NOW, it is an actual news story.
It angers and saddens me to see something so serious being turned into a circus of self promotion at its finest.
ReplyDeleteLast month Mr. Fletcher told me and some people that I have been working with, that they didn't have a legal leg to stand against Cordish and the P&L district. It was him, Carol Coe, Carl Bussey and another lady attorney. They were just showing off before Willie Gary, collectively dispensing unsolicited and erroneous advice. We were furious. Noone asked for their input. We were there to see Mr. Gary, who told us that evening they were wrong and not to let them discourage our efforts.
Bishop Tolbert testified against the dress code ordinance and on behalf of Cordish and the P&L District during the public hearings at City Hall. He also threw a gospel concert in the district the next day after DJ Jazzy Jeff was kicked off stage for playing hip hop. Cordish claimed that JJ messed up their sound system, but I personally went down there to see that everything look and sounded perfectly fine at Tolbert's concert.
As far as Grant, Adams, McFadden-Weaver and the others involved in this "Fairness Walk," I found out disturbing information about them little by little in the last few months and weeks. In addition to credible sources, the TKC blog and KC Star archives have been extremely informative.
This Cordish issue has caused so much tension and turmoil in the Kansas City Community. But we tend to forget about the real victims. They ones who have suffered the hurt, humilation and frustration after encountering racial discrimination at the district. A black man wants to enjoy a night out with his wife, gets insulted and humiliated and tld to leave--yet white men are aloud to have sex with each other in the bathroom. A family wants to get together for drinks only to be told to take their party elsewhere because they're not wanted down there--yet drunken white people can parade around half naked, rape women and get so drunk that they pee their pants and vomit on the sidewalk. A group of young black professional men go down there to celebrate a friend's job promotion only to get assaulted and insulted by racist bouncers on a power trip--yet a white man and his son can beat the crap out of a cop down there.
And through it all, Cordish has made no real efforts to eliminate the behavior; in fact Cordish has remained very defensive unapologetic and unwavering in their discriminatory practices to this day.
Jon Stephens resigned when he could no longer defend such foolishness. I think that the way he mishandled the Jazzy Jeff incident was the last straw. Stephen's successor, Kevin Battle, will only attempt to ignore the situation in hopes that it goes away. Not going to happen... Besides, Battle's hands are tied. He has limited power as President of the P&L as does spokesman Nick Benjamin.
To Be Continued...
Rev. Congressman Cleaver will avoid this altogether because his son Emiel works for his friend Carrie Stapleton's PR company Philips West. Philips West is currently under contract with Cordish and the Power & Light District.
ReplyDeleteOut of all of these black attorneys who have injected themselves into this issue, it takes a white one, Arthur Benson, to represent the Leaphart family and to hold a press conference to announce that he will file a complaint and then a class action suit against Cordish and the P&L District. Why didn't one of the black attorneys take the case? Although I appreciate Benson stepping up to the frontline with the Leaphart group, it gave me pause to see how he allowed Zed Smith to bulldog and bulldoze his way into his press conference. I worry that Benson might let Cordish and their attorneys do the same during pretrial litigation and in the courtroom if the case is not settled before trial. Zed literary took over that press conference, got grilled by the press while Battle and Benjamin were in the back quiet as church mice. I immediately rebutted Zed's statement after he told the reporters that data about the enforcement of the dres code was confidential. I told the press that I was going across the street to HRD to obtain copies of the report of findings from the test study HRD conducted at the district in September. I'd sent a written request for a copy of the report a couple of weeks and it just so happen that Dean advised me that report was ready the same day of the press conference. Zed hurried up and raced over to Philip Yelder's office to attach a statement contesting the validity of the test onto the report before it was released to the public. Zed is a very shrewd business man and the Cordishes are too. They have a war chest of resources and arrogance to match...will Benson bring a knife to a gun fight or be a poodle against a pitbull? I hope not. Whatever's the case, he has displayed more courage than any of the black attorneys who are so vocal about the dress code ever has. And for that, I respect him.
But the other concern that I have with Benson is that the case could possibly drag out for a over a decade, the way the school desegregation case in which Benson served as lead counsel on behalf of KCMSD students. This is not unusual for class action cases.
A march or protest is unnecessary at this point. Been there done that and got the white tshirt right before the dress code ordinance passed in March. Fast forward to June, Jazzy Jeff gets kicked off stage(if they'll treat Jazzy Jeff like this, imagine how they treat an Average Joe black or brown man...), then more complaints in my inbox, then the test study, yadda, yadda yadda. Noone of the city officials, clergy or community leaders helped the vitctims. Instead, they sent them running in circles, wasted their time or outright ignored them when they reached out to them, unfortunately. I told Yelder, Dean, Riley, Lisa Watson at the ACLU and the people who share their experiences with us that there's been more than enough talking, its time to present their cases to a judge & jury because Cordish won't budge and will continued to thumb their noses at the law if nobody forces them to answer for their actions and inactions. Glad to see things are moving in that direction, finally. The P&L district has a lt of potential and could be a very profitable business venture for the city if only we could get past the poor economy and the problems with race and discrimination that has plagued this project since it opened two years ago.
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO OURSELVES??!! SOB SOB SOB...
ReplyDeleteWOW! Let's go boy and loot the joint.
So much for bringing people with real money down there. Other than college kids and similar foolish youngsters the real money people will avoid this place when it's given over to the thugs and turds.
ReplyDeletethe simple truth is blacks ruin everything they touch. black part of town? trash strewn unkempt dump. black supermarket? multiple rent a cops patrolling the aisles. black nightclub? multiple shootings a year.
ReplyDelete90% of black children are on food stamps at some time in their lives. blacks are so used to getting handouts they can't actually do anything for themselves. the entitlement and rampant laziness among black women in particular is sickening.
It's easy for them to latch onto something like this and cry racism. It might even be true... but so what? Who wants P&L ruined by unruly groups of blacks? Look what they did to Indian Springs and Bannister Mall!
chimpout!
7:15 a.m., wow so untrue and stereotypical of white people's feelongs toward blacks. For the record all of the racial incidents that have taken place in the Power and White district none have involved Blacks!
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