TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! CALLING FOR A BOYCOTT OF K-PAC!!! KANSAS CITY'S SHAMELESS MONUMENT TO THE LOCAL ELITE IS A COSTLY DISGRACE!!!

Once again Kansas City media is leading a celebration when this wicked little town should be ashamed of itself.

The opening of The Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts is nothing more than a giant step backward for Kansas City because it reminds us that this Cowtown still can't get its priorities in order.

The silly and unproven notion that the building now known as K-PAC will increase the City's revenue has brought nothing but failure in the P&L District and a sub-par Downtown arena that can't even support a restaurant directly across the street.

This isn't a step on the national arts stage, it's KC covering old ground.

K-PAC IS JUST ANOTHER TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED "TIN CUP URBANISM" SCHEME THAT HOPES TO ATTRACT RICH WHITE PEOPLE WHO NEVER END UP PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE IN KANSAS CITY PROPER!!!



Everybody else is keeping quiet about the HUGE AMOUNT OF CASH THAT KANSAS CITY TAXPAYERS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROJECT like it's some dirty little secret and not a bill that's being passed on to future generations.

And speaking of a lesson in history . . .



All of this musical celebration over a shiny object on a hill reminds me of a golden calf that people adored in much the same fashion not really that long ago.

But this goes beyond the typical moral lapses of Kansas City's wealthy and elite socialites.

The TKC objection to K-PAC is really about growing economic disparity in Kansas City and the U.S. that's now being ignored by the some of the selfish and clueless higher income brackets locally.

THE KANSAS CITY MARKET FOR ENTERTAINMENT VENUES IS ALREADY SATURATED, THIS TOWN REALLY NEEDS MORE SEWER AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORK . . . SADLY, LOCAL RICH PEOPLE WOULD RATHER BUILD MONUMENTS TO THEMSELVES!!!

Tonight is the fancy grand opening for K-PAC that will be filled with the rich, powerful and poor excuses for celebrities . . . Let's put this event in the proper perspective.

Yesterday, I scraped together a few pesos and bought a cup of expensive coffee on The Plaza. On the street outside I noticed that security didn't even want to let some poor woman panhandle in peace.



She didn't look like much of a flash mob but they were in her face quickly.



The on the way home . . . I noticed the one-armed and mentally-challenged dude who collects cans walking round the Westside . . .



This is the new economy that's more representative of what's happening on the streets of Kansas City. Not some ugly concert hall. 

They say there's a worry about gentrification in this neighborhood thanks to K-PAC but I really doubt it for the immediate future given that so many posh houses around here are now sitting empty in this ongoing Great Recession.

People struggling on the street level are the Kansas City that blog readers are more familiar with . . . The big money crowd opening K-PAC tonight might as well be living on another planet. They really are the robber barons of this current political epoch.



And I know for the sake of "diversity" they'll dig up a few tokens or maybe offer a few field trips for students with brown skin . . . But that's nothing but PR. K-PAC was built for the Kansas City upper-class using a significant portion of taxpayer funds without anything close to a vote.

In the long run this isn't going to benefit Kansas City, it's nothing but another shiny new toy . . . To wit . . .

TKC IS CALLING FOR A BOYCOTT OF K-PAC BY ANYBODY WITH ENOUGH SENSE TO SEE THAT THIS IS JUST ANOTHER PUBLIC/PRIVATE SCHEME WITH LITTLE BENEFIT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF KANSAS CITY'S TAXPAYERS!!!

And by and large a boycott of this spot is going to be easy BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT MOST OF KANSAS CITY SHOWING UP TO THIS PLACE!!!

The plebs aren't really invited to experience high art except on occasions to generate publicity. This Downtown monstrosity is a place for the elite but like so many other failed Kansas City schemes . . . In the long run K-PAC might just be another empty Downtown structure.

New York Times Link: In Kansas City, an Arts Center Makes a Debut

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