Remember the Jazzy Jeff incident? There have been many instances of prejudice at the P&L district in Kansas City, a new development in downtown KC, a “Bar Mall” or sorts where suburbanites go to Downtown KC on the weekend, with a sense that they aren’t entering an authentic and scary kc… except they do enter a zone with misdirected management and attitude. Now the city itself even tested their entrance policies and concluded they are faulty, to say the least…
from NBC ACTION NEWS -
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Report: P&L Dress Code is Inconsistently Enforced |
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KCMO Dress Code Investigation Report (140.1KB) |
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KCMO Report on P&L District (506.1KB) |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A new report finds that the dress code at the Power & Light District isn’t uniformly enforced.
Phillip Yelder, with the Human Relations Department, says after repeated complaints of racial discrimination they decided to put the dress code to a test.
On Sept. 18 and 19 they sent 11 men to the entrance to the P&L’s Live Stage and the entrance to Lucky Strike.
Five of the men were black, three were Hispanic and three were white. According to the report the minorities were denied entrance 45 percent of the time. Whites were given entrance every time.
“None of them were dressed inappropriate except for one Caucasian that we indicated in the report was wearing athletic shorts, which is not allowed by the dress code. But that individual was still allowed to go into the venue,” says Yelder. READ MORE
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KCUR - With a freshly-filed discrimination complaint against the Power and Light District, Kansas City’s Human Relations Department reveals a test it took of the “lightning rod” dress code in the District.
The study says a test group of whites and minorities was sent to the entertainment district, all dressed in like fashion. All whites were admitted. 56 percent of minorities got in. READ & LISTEN
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LINKS
KCMO Human Relations dept
Urban League of Kansas City
KCUR coverage of event
Voices - KC Star editorial column on issue
NBC Action News story on city’s findings
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