[143] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Columbine, was: List Admin speaking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhelinrentice L Scott)
Sat Apr 21 02:56:10 2001
Message-Id: <200104210655.CAA09381@ten-thousand-dollar-bill.mit.edu>
To: Kenneth Lu <kenlu@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU, blackmail@MIT.EDU,
danielb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:52:11 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 02:55:31 -0400
From: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>
Okay, okay, I said I wasn't going to talk anymore, but
since the subject has changed I am compelled to contribute.
I agree with Wally. Let's talk about other deaths.
Let's take Ohio for example. The history of the city riots
that broke out last week go back all the way to
the 1920's around the time of the 1st World War.
Let's talk about white police officers who kill black civilians
who are unarmed and NOT guilty, let's talk about white
police officers who beat people like Rodney King in LA, California, and
how about the plain clothed officer who was murdered by his PEER in Rhode
Island.
Let's talk about black on black crime that occurs due to the
so called "market conditions" that refuse to give them
a living wage for the hard work that they do.
What is up with that?
Also, Thursday was the Jewish Holocaust Day. How come the US doesn't remember
its own holocaust? Especially because it was slave labor
that built the capitol. Let's talk about why the state of
Virginia wants to declare April to be Confederate Soldier's Month
and changed it to Civil War Veterans month after they were
threatened by the NAACP of a boycott of the state.
Let's talk about that fact that the people who dragged that
poor black man to death in Texas had confederate flags. The symbol
of the movement that fought to break away from the US.
I love my country, and the thought of people paying homage to the
movement that nearly destroyed it disturbs me and strikes me
as extremely UNPATRIOTIC.
So yes, it is disturbing that these white children in Columbine were
shooting up atheletes, gays, and minorities let's talk about the
root of the problem: The society in which they live that sweeps
the aforementioned issues under the rug.
Zhe
P.S. For those who think that the points I raised are figments of
my imagination please check the following.
References (Book titles & Newspaper articles):
1. Thinking about Crime
2. When Work Disappears by William Juilius Wilson
3. No Shame in my Game by Katherine Newman and Julie Wilson
4. The Debt by Randall Robinson
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