no.. I didn't know that.. that changes the whole thing.. I got this story from
one of my news feeds from India.. I wanted to show how they saw it..
But A white southerner shoots and kills three brown skinned academics out of
feelings of inadequacy.. of not being able to measure up.. and not a single news outlet covers it that way.. not even black ones..
what stands out to me after going back and re-reading the stories from
different news outlets and reading through the user comments and whatnot..
what stands out is how she is very subtly being cast as the victim.. their
is a sympathetic bend to the way she is portrayed.. she is a 'victim' of her
own psychology.. of a childhood accident.. etc etc.. their is almost no
respect given to the dead.. and to ignore the association of a white
southern murder of African and Indian people is a journalistic crime..
In the same state and same university system where just 47 years ago the
president of the united states had to send the national guard to admit a single
black woman.. where the governor of the state stood in the doorway to
block her entrance.. where the KKK terrorized our people.. the state that
was, I believe, 2nd or 3rd in recorded lynchings.. There is no way this is not a
race-based hate-based act of murder.