This year our blog community wants to acknowledge crime, hate and homicide that continues to go uncounted by official stats but remains a threat to the safety of all Kansas City residents.
Moreover, this Kansas City person of the year reveals the prejudice and bigotry that lingers within local diverse communities.
FOR 2014 TKC NAMES DIONTE GREEN THE KANSAS CITY PERSON OF THE YEAR!!!
Thanks to TKC TIPSTERS we broke news about this Kansas City hate crime death and LGBT community advocacy that hadn't met with much sympathy from authorities or the media.
The mourning of Dionte Green's murder continued to go largely unnoticed until national media did more reporting on the matter and documented the tragic homicide, hate crime suspicion and divisions within Kansas City's LGBT Community.
Matthew 25:40 - "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
This passage reminds us that the death of Dionte Green was ignored by the mostly white advocates of Kansas City's LGBT Community because they find it hard to identify with gay denizens of the urban core and minorities.
Many leaders in the African-American community don't approve of an LGBT lifestyle so Dionte Green's murder evoked no outrage in the Black community.
To this day, Dionte Green's homicide has not been documented as a hate crime despite the testimony of his friends.
There has been no justice in Kansas City for this murder- This is one of many examples of statistics not providing residents a realistic portrayal of real life on local streets and so we celebrate the life and legacy of Dionte Green in hopes that his death will not be in vain and might serve to show this wicked little town something about diversity and the value of life.