Get WOKE, go BROKE

Yet another example from Ashland, Oregon.
From Breitbart:

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett Alienated Longtime Donors, Audiences, and Actors with Woke Lectures
For decades, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has ranked as one of the nation’s preeminent theater institutions, drawing hundreds of thousands of theatergoers each year to scenic Ashland to see the classics performed. But that sterling reputation is in jeopardy as the company teeters on the brink of Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a troubled tenure by its recently departed artistic director, Nataki Garrett.

Longtime time ticket holders and other insiders with knowledge of the situation told Breitbart News that Garrett’s woke sermonizing and aggressive focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion alienated large swaths of the festival’s faithful audience as well as many of its small donors whose contributions collectively helped keep the organization afloat.

“Some former donors have changed their wills to remove bequests to OSF,” one source said, adding that others have been “withholding donations until they knew she was out. Other donors view the board itself as culpable in this mess and want to see changes at the board level.”

Many actors who have performed at the festival for years no longer feel welcome because they are white, two sources told Breitbart News. While OSF has long used non-traditional casting, Garrett accelerated the trend to such a radical degree that white actors are now the minority in many productions.

As a result, some actors who put down roots in Ashland are now leaving because they can no longer find work.

Always happens.  Go with the WOKE crowd and you will always fail.  99% of people out there have not one bit of racism in their bodies.  It is those virtue-signalling WOKE-sters who are the racisits. Inventing racism if they cannot find it.

Ashland is a beautiful small town on the Oregon/California border - always a wonderful place to stop and have some good food.  A lot of Oregon is conservative.  I wonder when the pendulum will swing back.  Portland Delenda Est...