Police say he intended to pull off a Columbine-style massacre at nearby DeAnza College. DeGuzman's trial date is to be set next week. Without condoning a copycat crime in the making, one still wonders about DeGuzman's treatment by the media. In none of the print accounts was his race ever mentioned. And in the general coverage I noticed it mentioned once, but by a Filipino American reporter who seemed sensitive to the same issue.
Facts are facts.
DeGuzman was Filipino American, but there was a real reluctance to mention it. In the past civil rights activists have complained that identification of race tended to brand all members of the group. That it fostered stereotypes of criminality that were negative. Most members of the media still operate in that fashion, not wanting to bring in race until it is relevant. They are objectified to the point of dehumanization.