Grammy Goodie Bags Inappropriate in These Hard Times
No-one who went to the first 3000 Club Black & White Ball could fail to be impressed with idea of providing produce-filled goodie bags for all the guests. It was a poignant reminder of why we were all there - if any of us needed a reminder.
Thus, I could barely believe my ears when I heard on the radio about the $25,000 dollar goodie bags handed out to the (already rich) celebs at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards yesterday. Back in November, In a story in USA Today, a Californian Foodbank reported 100% increase in demand in the last year with donations declining over the same period. Given that people are losing their homes all over America - losing jobs - increasingly having to turn to charitable organisations for basic necessities - does it not make you begin to wonder what the Grammy organisers were thinking? Or is it just me that is filled with a sense of disgust?
When you think that just two of these goodie bags could fund the rescue and distribution of 30 million pounds of produce to foodbanks all over the United Sates for a whole year …
How much better would those gifts have been if they had been used for such purposes? I for one will not be tuning in to watch such a display of conspicuous consumption in such difficult times. I find it totally inappropriate!
Jasper Blake
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Tags: Foodbanks, Goodie Bags, Grammys