BOD: PREZ exposses Keep Kboo bullies dishonest agenda
Sept 15, 2019 14:15:21 GMT -8
Post by KBubble on Sept 15, 2019 14:15:21 GMT -8
Who do we want to be as a community? Do we want to fight with each
other and shout over one another so that the loudest group dominates?
This has been what has been happening over the past few months,
starting with a petition in June to remove Danielle and I as board
members. And then our board meetings got overwhelmed with loud and
angry public comment to the point where we could not get any KBOO
board business done at all. We've had 4 of these board meetings so
far. It has been stressful, and hurtful, and unproductive. After about
2 of them, I couldn't speak anymore. It was only this past Sunday that
I began to understand why, when I drafted the statement below to read
at an additional board meeting we'd scheduled this past Monday the
9th; this board meeting was cancelled due to no quorum:
other and shout over one another so that the loudest group dominates?
This has been what has been happening over the past few months,
starting with a petition in June to remove Danielle and I as board
members. And then our board meetings got overwhelmed with loud and
angry public comment to the point where we could not get any KBOO
board business done at all. We've had 4 of these board meetings so
far. It has been stressful, and hurtful, and unproductive. After about
2 of them, I couldn't speak anymore. It was only this past Sunday that
I began to understand why, when I drafted the statement below to read
at an additional board meeting we'd scheduled this past Monday the
9th; this board meeting was cancelled due to no quorum:
I am Canadian-Sri lankan, and my parents are immigrants who settled in
rural Alberta (the Texas of Canada) in the late 70s. It was a
conservative place where we lived among white farmers and First
Nations people. The closest school to us was on the nearby Cree First
Nations reservation, and so that was where I went to school. That was
where I first began to experience relentless racism, every day. A
variety of slurs were used against me – slurs for African Americans,
South Asians, gay men, and so on. One that still stands out in my
memory was when I was called an “ugly buck-toothed n-word with gums
like a dog”. I remember being on the cusp of killing myself when I was
10, because I couldn’t take it anymore.
rural Alberta (the Texas of Canada) in the late 70s. It was a
conservative place where we lived among white farmers and First
Nations people. The closest school to us was on the nearby Cree First
Nations reservation, and so that was where I went to school. That was
where I first began to experience relentless racism, every day. A
variety of slurs were used against me – slurs for African Americans,
South Asians, gay men, and so on. One that still stands out in my
memory was when I was called an “ugly buck-toothed n-word with gums
like a dog”. I remember being on the cusp of killing myself when I was
10, because I couldn’t take it anymore.
What I learned later on was that a good majority of people who were
present in August’s meeting – many of whom had been the loudest and
most vocal, left before they could hear the budget presentation. Some
of those who left were even people who had applied to be board
members. How is it that people who care about KBOO – community members
and board member candidates - would leave before hearing a
presentation of the budget? The budget is one of the most critical
things the KBOO board does every year.
present in August’s meeting – many of whom had been the loudest and
most vocal, left before they could hear the budget presentation. Some
of those who left were even people who had applied to be board
members. How is it that people who care about KBOO – community members
and board member candidates - would leave before hearing a
presentation of the budget? The budget is one of the most critical
things the KBOO board does every year.
Learning that this happened made me wonder if the goal of all the
attendance and yelling at our board meetings is intended not to have
honest and open discussions about what’s going on at KBOO – but rather
to bully and attack me until I’m whipped enough and bleeding enough
that I leave.
I hope that this is not the case.
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