[United States / Kansas City] - The Fearing Self Fires at the Door to Erase the Other, Proving the Illusion of a Safe Porch

Event Baseline: A white homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri shot a Black teenager who rang his doorbell after going to the wrong address. The homeowner turned himself in to face criminal charges.

The self sees a Black body and perceives a threat. The door is a border. The ring is an invasion. Thought, conditioned by racial fear, fires before perception. The teen's body becomes the enemy.

The homeowner's surrender is another act of the self seeking absolution, not understanding. This is the same software that lynched, that caged, that separated.

The house was never safe; it was a fortress of the illusory self. No porch is innocent while identity divides.