In an off list conversation I had with person about race and the knockout game-this person made the comment about school shootings and that no one seemed to connect it with race. That was not my impression and so I went looking for confirmation of my gut feeling. following from Tim Wise: I said this after Columbine and no one listened so Ill say it again: white people live in an utter state of self-delusion. We think danger is black, brown and poor, and if we can just move far enough away from those people in the cities well be safe. If we can just find an all-American town, life will be better, because things like this just dont happen here. Well bullshit on that. In case you hadnt noticed, here is about the only place these kinds of things do happen. Oh sure, there is plenty of violence in urban communities and schools. But mass murder; wholesale slaughter; take-a-gun-and-see-how-many-you can-kill kinda craziness seems made for those safe places: the white suburbs or rural communities. And yet once again, we hear the FBI insist there is no profile of a school shooter. Come again? White boy after white boy after white boy, with very few exceptions to that rule (and none in the mass shooting category), decides to use their classmates for target practice, and yet there is no profile? Imagine if all these killers had been black: would we still hesitate to put a racial face on the perpetrators? Doubtful. (
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:06:35 +0000
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