TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! POWER AND LIGHT DISTRICT FAILS KANSAS CITY HUMAN RELATIONS DIVISION SPOT TEST FOR DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS!!!
Once again evidence of racial discrimination and bias at the P&L District is front and center for all of Kansas City to witness.
TKC IS EXCLUSIVELY REPORTING . . . Kansas City's Human Relations Division at City Hall recently conducted on-site spots tests to confirm or deny increasing reports of discrimination at The P&L District. What they found wasn't surprising . . .
WORD IS THE HUMAN RELATIONS DIVISION DISCOVERED A PATTERN OF DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES TOWARD AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND LATINOS AT THE P&L DISTRICT DURING SPOT CHECKS!!!
The spot checks are pretty simple and they recruited a bunch of my friends to participate. From what I hear it was simply a study of admittance into the district and then treatment for those who garnered entry.
News of this P&L District failure has already reached The City Council and now rests with the City Manager as to whether or not it will be made public.
Thankfully . . . AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS wanted readers of this blog to know the score.
So far, word of this latest P&L District failure is circulating throughout City Hall and among the many people around town who deal with diversity issues. As far as The City is concerned, P&L is getting 30 days to get their act together and spot checks will most likely be repeated.
I wouldn't count on anything changing given that the place was built on a foundation of SUPREMACY . . . The fact that the money losing operation is all white seems like a success to a few dreadful people and the defacto segregation is allowed to continue by a few folks scared to stand up for all of Kansas City's opportunity to enjoy a placed funded by taxpayer dollars.
let it go dude.
ReplyDeleteYou're lying Tony...it's not "all white", there are lots of blacks and hispanics in there...saw them last week.
ReplyDeleteYeah, well screw the 'Hoomin Rites Cum-Mission and you too, Jose Sharpton.
ReplyDeleteWhiney bitches.
Thank Tony for standing up for the people of KC. I am a professional black man (MBA) and I was recently discriminated against at the P&L while out with my white co-workers the refusal to serve me was so blatant that one of white peers had to get the manager of the restaurant. Of course I had to play it off like the waiter didn't see me sitting in the middle of the group or that he didn't hear me as he served my whole group and ignored me. etc.Very humiliating.
ReplyDeleteBy the way I noticed quite a few white guys walking around not adhering to the dress code in the P@L.
Thank Tony for standing up for the people of KC. I am a professional black man (MBA) and I was recently discriminated against at the P&L while out with my white co-workers the refusal to serve me was so blatant that one of white peers had to get the manager of the restaurant. Of course I had to play it off like the waiter didn't see me sitting in the middle of the group or that he didn't hear me as he served my whole group and ignored me. etc.Very humiliating.
ReplyDeleteBy the way I noticed quite a few white guys walking around not adhering to the dress code in the P@L.
Thank Tony for standing up for the people of KC. I am a professional black man (MBA) and I was recently discriminated against at the P&L while out with my white co-workers the refusal to serve me was so blatant that one of white peers had to get the manager of the restaurant. Of course I had to play it off like the waiter didn't see me sitting in the middle of the group or that he didn't hear me as he served my whole group and ignored me. etc.Very humiliating.
ReplyDeleteBy the way I noticed quite a few white guys walking around not adhering to the dress code in the P@L.
When they say P&L they just mean that lame amphitheater thing, right? Not like the restaurants (fran's, Johnny's tavern) or places like Constantino's correct? I mean, I support these places because they bring business and people downtown. I will not, however, go to the pavilion thing. That is the area that they actually discriminate who can go in, correct?
ReplyDeleteYa when they say P&L, its actually just the Live! block area (basically all the cordish owned bars). Johnny's Tavern, Flying Saucer, Gordon Biersch, and Raglan Road don't have dress codes, but I've been told that if you wanna go into the courtyard from those restaurants, they have a dress code host at the courtyard entrance.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the P&L website, the actual P&L district is about 9 blocks. The dress code only applies to the KC Live! courtyard.
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience, the dress code hosts do a little bit more than dress code. I was standing on Walnut St. a few weeks ago and was waiting for my friends. The hosts were standing there talking to girls the whole time and a bunch of ppl walked by without checking their IDs or anything. When I tried to walk in, they grabbed me and pushed me to the ground. One guy said, get the F out of here. I tried telling him that about 15 people had just walked in without them noticing and that I would be glad to show my ID, but that wasn't gonna work. The host kept arguing with me and pushed me back again. I figured I would save myself the trouble and go home. Some of those guys are pretty rude though and have no customer service skills, especially when you are pushing people to the concrete.
ReplyDeleteJohn D.
ReplyDeleteWas it a dress code guy or P&L security (I think they wear white shirts) that pushed you?
It was a host I think. The guy was wearing a shirt and tie and was checking IDs
ReplyDeleteYa, I had a bad experience with a dress code host too. I wonder what qualifications they have to have to check the dress code and check IDs? From what I have heard, fighting skills are also valued for those guys. I have seen them fight a few people because they basically don't know how to treat people with respect and talk to them.
ReplyDeleteAre we talking about the hosts that wear plain clothes like suits and stuff? or the uniformed officers? My experience with the uniformed P&L guys has been great. They were very professional and helped me and my friends out with some problem people that were bothering us. They are one of the reasons why I continue to frequent the P&L district.
ReplyDeleteIn one word I can describe the dress code hosts - "Rude" Go to P&L, and see for yourself.
ReplyDeleteI can say that P&L is all white but what i noticed this afternoon is that it's all empty. It looks like they only count on the club crowd and that's no way to run a business. KC needs ALL people in there all day long.
ReplyDeletesupremacy? You bet. White money built it. Why don't the mesikans build things like this? Because they are too poor. Why are they too poor? Because they could not figure out how to make money. White people figured it out. So yeah, supremacy.
ReplyDeletesupremacy? Like the last 8 years of Bush and the great Recession. You should say white people figured out how to take white,black, and hispanic peoples tax money and waste it on Cordish inc.
ReplyDeleteSo John D... why did you get jumped? Were you profiled a minority, or underdressed, were you dressed to GET jumped, did you cop an attitude? Why YOU?
ReplyDeleteIf what you have is true, its a big story, unless you were lookin for it. That kind of stuff gets around... ya know what people say...
One person has a bad time, they tell ten, they tell ten more, and before ya know it, if it happens a lot, a place gets a rep!
White money built it. Why don't the mesikans build things like this?
ReplyDeleteBullshit.
TAX MONEY BUILT IT.
That comes from whites, black, hispanics, asians and everybody. Therefore EVERYBODY should be able to get in.
Well, let's be honest here 9:43. Who pays most of the taxes in KCMO?
ReplyDeleteGotcha!
ReplyDeleteWell dressed, well behaving folks of ALL RACES get into KC Live. Knucklehead skanks of ALL RACES don't.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the "hosts" and security are on power trips to impress the skanks. They probably don't want the competition from the black and Hispanic guys and probably any white guy they think is hotter than them for the white girls. They know their steroid use has shall we say.."shrunk"..their chances with the black and Hispanic women.
ReplyDeleteI'm black and never had any problems at the resturants. I don't go to the over-rated drunk fest at the KC Live. It also would be interesting to see of the black-owned and frequented resturant and the other new black business down there have dress codes and dress code complaints. If they don't, it also would be interesting to see if they (or others without dress codes) have had any more problems than those with them.
Question? So dress codes aside, I have seen many times at The Peachtree, people being patted down and frisked before entering. Is that discriminatory?
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