Question for Kansas City Public Television

You have someone named Vickie Diaz-Camacho telling us how great KCPT is in your advertising but you can't get an Hispanic or Latinx person on "Week In Review" every week?

Seriously?

Shame On You, KCPT

This week's "Week In Review" was, once again, lily white.

The entire panel.

Not one "person of color" to discuss the city's issues, problems and opportunities.

Same Old Same Old from "Ruckus"

Here we go again.

KCPT's weekly news program, on tonight, Thursdays, at 7 pm was more of the "same old, same old" tonight.

Right Winger host Mike Shanin asked a gray haired woman who said she was against the trolley downtown as well as extension of it, why she's against it.

She has never ridden it and won't, she says, but she's for mass transit, she swears.

Sure she is.

And open-minded. Of course she is.

Then, they went on to---wait for it---an all white, lily white panel to discuss affordable housing in the city.

Wow.

Kudos, At Long Last, To KCPT, "Ruckus" and Mike Shanin

At last.

At long last.

I've posted here, at least a few times, if not several, how our local PBS station has singularly, only white people, time after time and week after week, on the show to discuss and hopefully solve Kansas City's issues and problems. In spite of our considerable Black and HIspanic and others population, the program had just that, only white people. Alone.

So imagine how pleased I was this week when they included Jamekia Kendrix on the weekly panel to discuss and talk and be heard. She was and is eloquent and intelligent and well-spoken and more than held her own and gave different viewpoints.

Thank goodness.

Here's hoping it's the shape of things to come for them, for the program and for all of us.

Kudos and salutations, KCPT.

And thank you.

Their "Week in Review" was its same bleached whiteness but at least this "Ruckus" was inclusive.

Hoping they learn, at long last.

Links:

Ruckus | Watch Online | Kansas City PBS Video - KCPT

Ruckus - KCPT