Kansas City Public Library 'Evicted' Exhibit Hits Too Close To Home For Broke-Ass Locals?!?

Here's a fun game . . . 

Check the comments and notice that anybody who displays a bit too much bravado directed at the working poor is probably a living & breathing example of the "pecking order theory" and might be compensating for their own legit worries. 

Tragic reality . . .

In the current economic climate . . . More working-class Americans are closer to eviction than anybody would like to admit. 

Remember . . . 

The Federal Reserve reports that 36% of Americans don't have enough money on hand to cover a $400 emergency.

Accordingly . . .

The typical blame game that seemingly hates po'folk is pretty much self-hate turned outward and directed toward the infinite abyss of the Internets and anybody silly enough to pay attention. 

Meanwhile . . .

We won't offer TOO MUCH sympathy because these might be people that we're forced to fight with at a soup kitchen or in the gas station coffee line sometime in the not too distant future. 

In fairness . . .

Locals can't be TOO NICE given so many faux-homeless junkies camped out at just about every gas station in Midtown asking for spare change that NOBODY is willing to give. 

But I digress . . .

Check this depressing bit of POVERTY-PR0N on display at the public library . . . Hopefully, the irony won't be lost on so many homeless denizens of this decaying local institution . . . 

"For too many in Kansas City and across the country, the challenge of keeping up with the rising costs of food, fuel, and other consumables is only the beginning. They’re at risk of losing the roof over their heads. More than 10,000 tenants have been hit with eviction filings in Kansas City the past two years – with many more forced to move in actions outside the courts.

"Their harrowing experiences are illuminated in this immersive traveling exhibition through photographs, video storytelling, and spatial elements."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Evicted

Through photographs, video storytelling, and spatial elements, this immersive exhibition illuminates the harrowing experience of eviction - faced annually by thousands in Kansas City and across the country. It is inspired by Matthew Desmond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.