In January, it was time for another “reckoning with race” over in Kansas.

Whoever lynched Jackie Robinson’s statue in Wichita is not just any old racist – Kansas City Star

Whoever lynched Jackie Robinson’s statue in Wichita will hopefully have their macabre and literally monumental handiwork recognized soon, with jail time.

Eff for hateful effort, whoever you are. Because not just any old racist has the energy, commitment or feel for slavery-era symbolism to saw through a more than 300-pound bronze likeness, leaving only Robinson’s feet behind in McAdams Park…

And to then dismember and burn the likeness of the first man to cross baseball’s color line and leave its charred remains in another public park Tuesday morning, so as to send a very public signal?

Of course that was written by a white woman.

Here’s another entry by a white woman who probably spent a lot of time rereading Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Public rejects hate after desecration of Jackie Robinson statue – Seattle Times

Last month, a statue of the sports and civil rights legend was sawed off at the ankles, carted away in the dark of night, dismantled and burned in a trash can. The racial symbolism is impossible to ignore. The crime happened a week before Black History Month and days before what would have been Robinson’s 105th birthday…

As demonstrated every day, racism did not die with the Civil Rights Act in 1964, nor with the election of a Black president in 2008. And it continues to course through America, no matter what politicians like Nikki Haley may attempt to claim…

I was reminded of him while watching Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan, who is white, speaking to the still-unknown people who desecrated and destroyed the Robinson statue. The chief’s disgust was palpable. He urged the perpetrators to have guts enough to come forward.

“Admit your part in this,” he said, indicating that several people were likely to be arrested for what they’d “done to our community.”

Nikki Haley and the “racial symbolism, impossible to ignore” aside, they caught the guy. And he’s just a thief.

Ricky Angel Alderete was taken into custody earlier on an unrelated case and was later charged in this case with “felony theft valued at over $25,000, aggravated criminal damage to property, identity theft and making false information,” according to The Wichita Eagle. He is currently jailed on $150,000 bond.

The reason for the theft, according to police, appears to be financial and not motivated by race.

“The investigation has not revealed any evidence indicating this was a hate-motivated crime,” police Lt. Aaron Moses said during Tuesday’s news conference. “Instead, we believe this theft was motivated by the financial gain of scrapping common metal.”

The Root, Henry Louis Gates Jr’s contribution to racially dividing America, where hatred of white people will never die, however isn’t giving up.

The White Man Who Destroyed That Jackie Robinson Statue in Kansas Is Revealed – The Root

Must be one of those white Hispanics. Racism will never die. It’s just too valuable.