Downtown Kansas City 'Symbolic Lynching' Or Just More Vandalism & Theft?!?

The local newspaper report offers an EXTREMELY POLITICIZED accounting of recent street level crime that seems to track along with so many other instances of break-ins and property damage endured inside the loop.

A sub-header asks: 

"Is racism behind the repeated vandalism of a sign marking the site of a 1882 Kansas City lynching?"

 And let's not forget the that this kind of "journalism" evokes memories of a not-so-long-ago incident where a dude suffering addiction issues just wanted a quick score and damaged a Jackie Robinson statue thereby sparking NATIONAL OUTRAGE AGAINST ALLEGED RACISM that was obviously mistaken.

Here's the word . . .  

"There was an incident deemed by some as a symbolic lynching in a public park near Kansas City’s West Bottoms. A 200-pound, 42-by-38-inch metal marker, which was erected by the Community Remembrance Project of Missouri in 2018 at West Terrace Park near 10th and Summit streets in Kansas City, stood as a memorial to the lynching of Levi Harrington — until somebody cut it down.

"Recently, somebody stole its replacement.

"This latest incident of vandalism was the third for this marker." 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

This KC lynching marker has been damaged three times. Now it's gone | Opinion

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