They never do anything wrong. We moved from the city to get away from things like this. The statement rings in my ears with a burning familiarity. It s the same thing heard after Paduchah, Pearl, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Edinboro, and Springfield. And now again, in the wake of Littleton.
Some people never get it.
Some people are so caught up in their race and class stereotypes about what danger looks like, they still insist things like this just don t happen here. I ve yet to hear of one black or Latino kid in an inner-city school plotting, let alone carrying out mass murder. Christ, if these kids had been black they would have been followed around the hardware store for so long that they would never have been able to buy any pipes, let alone the other ingredients needed for the kind of explosives Messrs. Klebold and Harris concocted. Must not have been violence. We have been so conditioned to see deviant and destructive behavior as a by-product of melanin or defective black culture, that commentators can, without any sense of irony continue to remark about how, well, remarkable it is when things like this happen.