Here's an interesting note about an upcoming collabo betwixt minority communities in the aftermath of a Missouri uprising by way of artsy therapy.
Check it:
Rocket Grants: One Struggle KC Engaging Art / Una Lucha KC Arte Atractivo
Deets: "One Struggle KC Engaging Art/Una Lucha KC Arte Atractivo works to empower, unite, and educate oppressed groups/communities within the KC metro area through art. This grant will enable One Struggle KC/Una Lucha KC (1SKC/UL) to serve marginalized communities within their own neighborhoods. By utilizing less stigmatizing settings to address mental health concerns, 1SKC/UL will be able to reach families most affected by trauma. 1SKC/UL will partner with other organizations to capture the attention of people of color who are often unaware of the transformative nature of art."
Developing . . .
In KCMO each year there are tens of millions of dollars of one kind of "grant" or another that are awarded to many many dozens of "nonprofits" to address one problem or another.
ReplyDeleteAnd each year the money disappears and the problems go on and on, or even get worse.
This is the very definition of "make-work jobs programs" and do nothing more than give some folks some income and a sense of self-importance, all at public or philanthropic expense.
Most of the funders pay no attention to where the money goes or what the results are, and do nothing whatever to hold anyone to account.
It's really too bad these resources are wasted year after year.
"....works to empower, unite, and educate oppressed groups/communities within the KC metro"
ReplyDelete"oppressed groups"? WTF?
In other words, it's a bunch of whining loser "victims" who'd rather meet and discuss their victimhood, than take responsibility for their situation and work to improve it.
Pass!!!!!!!!!!
You've got to be fucking kidding me!!
ReplyDeleteWherever this group is getting its money from, the donors, or maybe taxpayers, should be asking for a refund and asking themselves how they ever got themselves involved in such a joke.
ReplyDeleteThe most popular activity these days is to self-identify yourself as a put-upon aggrieved group, make demands, and find funding.
In no time at all you'll be able to hire an executive director and schedule your own convention.
And the fact that you can't accomplish much of anything has nothing to do with a lack of education or working hard or having any skills or even trying to get a job.
Your failure is everyone else's fault.
Encouraging and rewarding failure and phoniness.
What a great racket!
That grant will buy a lot o spray paint
ReplyDeleteNice list of stuff
ReplyDeleteRespectively
ReplyDeleteOrly!? A bunch of white people getting paid to teach people of color about the transformative power of art? Have you even heard of Black culture, Native Indian culture, etc? Any area library can explain it to yall. Feel free to stop in anytime. People of color pretty much got a lock on this shit.
ReplyDeleteI suggest a project where they empower "marginalized" communities to paint their damn houses. With a can of paint and rollers, not spray paint. Soothing tans and grays, too instead of over-exciting pinks and yellows. The artistry of a well painted house must be appealing to them or they wouldn't all try to move to the suburbs.
ReplyDeleteArt, you say? Ha. Silly boy, you mean propaganda.
ReplyDeleteSocial justice = more payouts to niggers
ReplyDeleteCommunity = nigger ghetto