June 11, 1999 at 12:00 am #35655
Jade-T
Participant
While I think the Columbine shootings are tragic and am adamantly against guns, I do think the media exposure and the way people are reacting to it has shed some light on the inherently racist views of mainstream America. When the perpetrators are white middle-class suburban kids, people ask and headlines read, “Where did we go wrong?” as if to say these boys aren’t black and living in the ghetto so they logically shouldn’t be killing people. Hello? Wake up call. Nobody should be killing people. Maybe we should stop ignoring these inner-city shootings, stop being desensitized to them and start thinking of solutions to them as well as to suburban shootings. Placing the white suburban child on a pedestal is not going to solve anything.