How the shooting of Ralph Yarl demonstrates the fiction of a colorblind society in America
- Written by Barbara Harris Combs, Professor and Chair Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
Ralph Yarl is showing signs of recovery after he was shot in April 2023 by a neighbor in Kansas City, Kan. ABC NewsGiven the gunshot wounds to his head and arm, the fact that Ralph Yarl was able to celebrate his 17th birthday on May 7, 2023, is a modern-day miracle.
Less than a month earlier, on April 13, Yarl had gone to pick up his twin younger...