TKC QUESTION TONIGHT: WHAT DOES A KANSAS CITY HIPSTER LOOK LIKE?!?! IS THE 'CREATIVE CLASS' OBSESSION RACIST?!?
Much smarter people than TKC have been challenging one of the big assumptions touted often in Kansas City political and developer rhetoric.
To wit . . .
LATELY, THE KANSAS CITY "CREATIVE CLASS" HYPE HAS BEEN CALLED OUT AS KINDA RACIST AND CERTAINLY NOT INCLUSIVE OF SO MANY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES OF LOCAL MILLENNIALS!!!
One KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDER notes:
"They are talking about white people with money but they just can't come out and say it. There is very little diversity in the Crossroads or anywhere else among the new attractions Downtown. In fact, you're lucky to see people of color working at these places let alone participating in any of the events. The "creative class" rhetoric is exclusionary at best and downright malevolent when you consider how much money its diverting away from the inner-city."
Real talk continues among this white lady KC Insider: "When they talk about recruiting young people to Kansas City's urban core, they're certainly not referring to flash mobs on the Plaza, Downtown and so many other places where Black and brown minorities often say that they feel unwelcome."
You decide . . . In addition to being financially unsound and self-promoting . . . Is the call to lure the "creative class" to Kansas City kinda racist as well?!?!??!
Individualism is not part of the hipster and modern creative class dictionary.
ReplyDeletePeople are still drinking the Richard Florida Kool Aid?
ReplyDeleteThey all look the same to me.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any black urban lumberjacks or skinny jean and converse wearing blacks downtown sipping latte's and snarfing kale.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the ones sitting in a mediocre coffee joint downtown, eyes glued to their smartphone, only occasionally looking up to scowl at whomever they see.?
ReplyDeleteA new mathematical model shows that the hipsters collective strivings for individuality end up accomplishing the opposite
ReplyDeleteHipster... You mean a pretend outdoorsman with a scruffy beard, $100.00 fag jeans his Mommy paid for, sleeves of crappy tattoos he will regret forever and those big holes in his ears?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, Richard Florida is busily working on his NEXT BIG THING that you'll have to have unless you want to be left behind.
ReplyDeleteAnd new must-have ideas have to come along to keep up the book sales and lecture fees.
Maybe the new idea will be that everyone really needs to live on a farm.
Then KCMo can subsidize the transition of all the downtown lofts into greenhouses.
The innovation capital of the world!
Any black person can open a business in the Crossroads just like anybody else can so long as they have the means. Nobody caters to the black crowd? So what? You know what happens to businesses that cater to black people? They close. Ask any bar owner that tried that foolish business model. As far as our black population mirroring somewhere like Atlanta, have you seen the education level of our local black population? There is a reason they can't afford to open a legitimate business or don't have disposable income (though they always are wearing $400 worth of clothes, shoes included, the newest cell phone, and $2000 rims). It's because they don't have jobs or if they do they aren't good-paying jobs. And that is entirely their fault. Nobody put them behind the 8-ball of life other than themselves and their shitty "parents."
ReplyDeleteFlorida's specialty is brainwashing gullible politicians. "The creatives are here!" Which he has been doing successfully for some time now.
ReplyDeleteOh for Peres sake, is there nothing that can't be labeled as racist? You keep calling people racist and their going to become one.
ReplyDelete"IS THE 'CREATIVE CLASS' OBSESSION RACIST?!?"
ReplyDeleteWell, duh! Why do you think they want their very own streetcar and won't share a bus with people of color?
From the Hipster Manifesto:
ReplyDelete"While we condemn any overt discrimination against people of color, we don’t really want to have anything to do with them (unless they happen to be hipsters, like us), hence our aversion to buses and our unwillingness to cross Troost and certainly Prospect. It’s all good and well to talk equality, but really, people! We are, of course, willing to use racism as a tool against any and all of our opponents. If you don’t like marathons, streetcars, and higher taxes for things we want, you’re a racist, in other words. See how well that works? If you don’t like it, you can always move to some Ku Klux Klan enclave in Utah or wherever."
EVERYONE MUST HAVE A LABEL
ReplyDeleteNO EXCEPTIONS
So to all the BOWLS on this website - bitchy overlooked white loser shitheads - meet your new label!
And Mensa boy joins the conversation.
ReplyDeleteHI BOWL BOY! How's the BOWL lifestyle treating you? BOWLS are well known for their inability to ever find another city to live in, let alone find a way out of a city they are obsessed with endlessly complaining about.
ReplyDeleteI kinda miss KC but don't miss the idiots who for whatever reason can't sell their guns to raise enough UHaul money to get the fuck out if they hate it so much.
Hipsters are stupid! Hey look at me I am soooo cool because I look like everyone else I surround myself with.
ReplyDeleteHipster = conformity
bowls is kind of funny. lots of BOWELS here to. boring, opinionated, weakly educated, lower shelf.
ReplyDeleteHi Bowels and Bowls.
Why cant we have harmony in a world of difference??
ReplyDeleteGoogle "lumbersexual" for a laugh
ReplyDeleteNIGGERS are not welcome, anywhere in the world. You can change facts...
ReplyDeleteThis blog is made up of the affliction we hardy wearing bros who were badazzz in high school, never went to college and now can't figure out how the nerds won...
ReplyDeleteTry again in English, college boy. :)
DeleteWhat exactly does it mean when someone says they'd ride a streetcar, but they "don't like the bus" except that they don't like "those people" on the bus?
ReplyDelete"Creative class." "Art scene." "Art district." What does any of that mean in a town where there is very little apparent creativity or art that anybody anywhere else would ever pay any attention to (other than in a couple pretty good museums)? The shrinks would call it "delusions of grandeur." That's an abnormal mental condition, in case you've never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteBOWLS are who ultimately will pay for railed hipster transportation units.
ReplyDelete"So to all the BOWLS on this website - bitchy overlooked white loser shitheads - meet your new label!"
ReplyDeleteYou do need to try again if you're trying to label those who oppose eco devo projects as BOWLS could describe many on both sides of the streetcar divide, including most obviously Mensa boy. And agree with 11:00. BOWELS would be much more "clevar."