Kansas City is giving the Kansas City Power and Light District a much-deserved scolding for its dress code, perceived by many as racist.
The one time I went to the meat market district, we stood in line for twenty minutes to get into a bar. A bouncer approached a black guy behind me and told him to tuck in his polo if he wanted in. I was wearing an untucked polo too, but I guess it didn’t hang far enough below my belt to qualify for profiling; the black guy’s polo hung about two inches lower than mine. Who knows what kind of weaponry could lurk behind those two inches?
A lot of things bother me about the Power and Light District, but that place better find more clever ways to keep black people away – I suggest more Manilow in the clubs. I can’t believe they thought they could get away with this.