Posted on 08/10/2022 3:25:08 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A Missouri water park has apologized to a Black family that booked the venue for a big party, but was left high and dry.
Lee’s Summit Parks and Recreation said in a statement published Tuesday that it had conducted an internal review of an Aug. 6 event it booked, then canceled on a day when hundreds of teens were hoping to beat the summer heat and have some fun. That investigation “identified missed processes and miscommunication that led to the cancellation,” administrator Joe Snook wrote in his lengthy explanation.
“A sincere apology is owed to the Evans family and our Lee’s Summit community,” he wrote.
Lee’s Summit is the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and sits near Missouri’s border with Kansas.
According to LSPR, the Evans family booked the park on July 8 for a birthday party that was to have lasted from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Park officials said that on Aug. 4, they became aware of a social media post advertising an event called “Splash Blast 2″ that was being hosted at its water park during that time. Promoting events at the park is in violation of the venue’s rental terms.
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Imagine 500 black 17-year-olds showing up for the party.
Half uninvited just hangin’ out.
It’s alright. We only live about an hour and a half away. I feel bad for our neighbors at the condo who drove down from Indiana.
“Because this waterpark is going to get sued and lose or be forced to settle.”
“A Missouri water park has apologized to a Black family that booked the venue for a big party, but was left high and dry.”
According to the article, it was the father of the kids for the party that made the racial comment:
“Chris Evans, the father of the two teens who’d planned the party, accused LSPR workers of participating in ‘racial profiling and discrimination.’”
I saw nothing in the article that had to do to implicate race as the problem. That was only used by the party people and the news source.
So unless we are not being told something, there is nothing to back the claim concerning race so it has the appearance of the news source using the race card to sensationalize the situation and sell their wares from it or the party trying to make it a problem to try to get more out of the waterpark.
Slow news day? Invent stories and use mistakes and the unproven statement of one of the people involved as the opportunity. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”
Wy69
Roger. Roger. Roger. Roger. Roger.
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