The Kansas City Defender
July 15 at 7:23 PM ·This afternoon, a FedEx driver was standing at the door of a Black women-owned brokerage in the West Plaza, frustrated the office hadn't answered fast enough. The Ring camera he activated caught what he said next: "What the f*ck is this n*@@ers number?"
Murrell is the founder of Murrell Homes Real Estate Group.
"When it started playing, and I heard those things, it kind of took me back," she told The Defender in an interview Tuesday. "I was like, did I just hear what I thought I heard? So I played it again." She called her colleagues over and played it a third time. "It shocked us all."
Then she went and found the package, dropped on the ground at her doorpost, her company's name on the label.
"When I determined, okay, you were coming for me, then that's when the anger came in," she told us. "That was not necessary."
She called the FedEx station that serves her area. They answered and hung up. She plans to file a formal report, and she wants answers about their standards. "There needs to be accountability," she said. "That's a grown man. He has to be accountable for his actions. He made his bed. So now he got to lay in it."
Murrell Homes launched in December 2021 as fourteen Black women real estate professionals. Five years later they are nearly forty strong, putting families into homes in a city that spent a century trying to keep Black families from owning anything at all. "I was born and raised in Kansas City, and I believe that our community deserves positive professional representation," Murrell told The Defender. "We're here sharing love and support for our community. And that's what I expect from everybody else."
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