The national glare is moving on from my city’s angst.
It’s got a new focus: later in the month, Kansas City will host the 2023 NFL Draft, a lucrative, well-earned civic kudo.
This is replacing the hyper-fixation of the recent gun violence involving an 84-year-old white man accused of grabbing a revolver and shooting a 16-year-old Black youth because the latter rang the man’s doorbell because he had the gall to step on his stoop.
The teen, sent to pick up his younger twin siblings, was on the wrong street; but at the right house address. He needed Terrace, not Street – an honest and easy mistake.
But Ralph Yarl, a stellar student at a local high school, got shot for the mix-up. Not once, but twice. And in the ensuing days, Kansas City got swarmed by national media.
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