“I’m scared,” said a demonstrator in Kansas City, at a protest after the shooting of Ralph Yarl. “I’m, like, Oh, my God, is my son going to ring the wrong doorbell and be in the hospital or dead?”
Last week, on Tuesday afternoon, Linda Deah stood in a crowd in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Kansas City to protest the shooting of Ralph Yarl. It was an unseasonably warm day, and a nearby row of budding oak trees weren’t much help against the strong spring sun. Linda, who is thirty-three, wore fashionably torn jeans, a blackT-shirt, and big silver hoop earrings.
While she spoke, people started chanting, “Justice for Ralph! Justice for Ralph!” The oak trees swayed in the breeze, casting long, spindly shadows over the crowd. “It’s just too much,” Linda said. “At church we’re being killed. InAt the edge of the crowd, Alpha Bahway, another Liberian immigrant, stood filming on his cell phone. Bahway wore black jeans and a short-sleeved button-down, his eyes hidden behind sunglasses. He had moved to the U.S.
Linda’s father, Shad, came out from the kitchen and took a seat at the end of the couch. He was a quiet, serious man with a bald head and glasses. “We have a full house,” Linda said. “That’s how I grew up.” The conversation turned to her work. “Nursing homes aren’t a thing in Africa,” she said. “There, when you get to be older, your children take care of you.”“Sometimes I’ll know a resident for a year or two and never see their family,” Linda said. “They’ll only show up when they’re dying.
Revival of Hope Ministries, which is painted white and has a short steeple, sits at the far eastern end of northeast Kansas City, in a neighborhood of modest single-family homes. A few blocks southeast is a Jewish cemetery that was founded in 1901. To the north is a commercial street lined with Mexican restaurants, auto-repair shops, and a flea market.
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