Cho Seung-Hui He was not one of us.
The gunman responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech University, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, was an Asian male student who lived in a campus dormitory, President Charles Steger said today.The violence will be blamed on outsiders, foreigners let into this country. Not us, we are uncapable of doing such a thing.
But Field Negro corrects us when he writes about young lives lost in his community, blood everywhere from killings. And we can only say one more body , without action. Where is the outrage? Who said it was okay to have this nihilistic view? Derrick Bell? Death and Killing. Locked up and throw away the key, made me safe in my community? Who said so? Who Eddie writes about unanswered rage and it toil on the human psyche. Dr. Spence reminds how we decide to rally behind those in our community when injured. Bronze Trinity provides us a petition within even the Afrosphear to check ourselves. This is a mission of action.
And that is what Temple 3, tells us. We have got to come out of our goo goo ga ga mode of action. T3 provides us with what we need most in our communities, solutions. Temple writes about succession planning. "D" spot headed toward the brick and mortar that Dr. Spence speaks about, a school of children. Children get ready, he's on his way. Afrosphear, where is our plan for succession? Our youth and not so young are waiting on us to get up and to pass on solutions to this madness living in the United States of America. Conference calls can be made, we need solutions. Katrina has taught us that they are not coming. And we do know who they are, or do we?
I don't want to hear not one more time it was not one of us.
Derek O'Dell, who was shot in the arm, said there was an ``eerie silence'' when the gunman entered his class in Norris Hall. The man wore a black leather jacket with ammunition sleeves inside, jeans
and a maroon hat, the student said.
``He was very methodical. He seemed trained to kill,'' O'Dell said during a broadcast interview. ``He had no anger in him at all; he was very calm -- just determined to kill everybody.
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Cho was one of us. Rest in Peace..all lives lost in violence. I've updated from 9:30 A.M.
I got the impression that Cho Seung-Hui was made to feel he was not one of them all the time; from reading a cnn.com article. It says he had a history of mental illness, but some of the taunts may have been delusional or maybe not.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to mental illness most that recognize it, don't know how to help the person or the person doesn't think they need help. Being stigmatized and the lack of helpful facilities that work, continue to put the mentally ill at risk.
Hey Credo.
ReplyDeleteYou've made a very good point here about how so many of us are wrongheadedly focused on "which one of them" did it. If that's where we still are in America, and it appears that's the case, then God help us.
Hathor: No surprise, education is for the best and the brightest.. but that does not stop the schools from taking money from all the rest.
ReplyDeleteKeith:
Thanks for coming over. Yes indeed, God help us all.