A Need, A Nine Year Old Dreamer and A Way
In this past school year, at least seven Kansas City Public School kids have been injured by gunfire and five recent graduates have been shot and killed. There are so many layers of injustice in that statistic that it hurts. Maybe what gets me the worst is that it’s just a statistic. If these numbers were true of a non-urban school it would not be a statistic that could be dismissed and overlooked, there would be an outcry. But in KC when gun violence happens we just call it
