Dancing with the Stars...Fort Wayne style

Dancing with the Fort Wayne Stars

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I attended a charity event here in Fort Wayne for The Carriage House; a clubhouse designed to overcome mental illness. The event is of the same concept as ABC's Dancing with the Stars but with Fort Wayne businessmen/women.

The Carriage House mission is assisting people in recovering from mental illness and returning to the community. With the assistance of the Carriage House members have the opportunity for employment, education, and returning to their lives. ~cited program book from the event


The purpose of the event is to raise money and boy do they raise money!!! Like hella mucho money!!! Tickets are $100 per person (for a nasty buffet meal) and $5000 for a table on the dance floor; the room consisted of 100 tables at 10 people per table. So you do the math on that.

I will help ya out on basic math not including the $5000 floor tables: 
10 people x 100 tables = 1000 people
1000 people x $100 per person = $100,000
Lets include the floor tables and say there was 10 floor tables 
10 tables x $5000 per table = $50,000
...more money to be calculated shortly...

Now each year approx. 10 'celebrities' are chosen coupled with 10 professional dancers. {I was invited through a participant, because ya'll know I'm not spending $100 for that!! It's a good cause but...yea well... ugh no! } 

Couples dance the first round and the top three with the most money/votes goes to the second round. Now you are thinking, 'she said money slash votes, huh??' You are alloted 1 free vote, after that it's $10 per vote. So the riches man/woman with the wealthiest friends can literally walk on stage stand there, walk off, write a check, and win the whole thing!!!!  

I'm going to talk race relations for a bit. Don't get all sensitive on me people please. It's race relations not racism...

Now my people may have the same mind I have with spending $100 per plate and then having to pay to vote but anywho, there were 4 black people in the audience of 1000 (not including the wait staff).  F...O...U...R. Like 1..2..3..4. not 40, or 14, or 24, but 4.

I would hope next year they will add some diversity to their lineup and in their audience, because that was a diversity hott efffing mess.