Comment Is it just me, or... (Score 1) 7
- Why is it that the media insists on focusing on 'statistical aberrations' like the Littleton massacre, and conveniently ignores all the gun-related deaths happening in the slums and ghettos of North America? I guess it's an easier story to deal with, because it's an isolated incident; if Dateline:NBC wanted to do a story on how black males have a life expectancy that's nearly half as long as white males, they might actually have to do some research.
- You don't see a teen member of a minority in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood walk into their school and shoot seventeen people. Why not? Because that teen has to deal with things like where their next meal is coming from, and whether or not they'll be fast enough to dodge the next drive-by. Forget peer pressure, being an outsider, enduring ridicule. How about survival?
- It's the millennium, people! Wacky things are bound to happen! Look at the past six or seven years and tell me I'm wrong. Here's a quick list: OJ, the Bobbitts, Waco, Zippergate, Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center, Jeffrey Dahmer, and let's not forget that Benigni guy. Don't think we've seen it all, either, because we're just getting started.
- You don't see a teen member of a minority in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood walk into their school and shoot seventeen people. Why not? Because that teen has to deal with things like where their next meal is coming from, and whether or not they'll be fast enough to dodge the next drive-by. Forget peer pressure, being an outsider, enduring ridicule. How about survival?
- It's the millennium, people! Wacky things are bound to happen! Look at the past six or seven years and tell me I'm wrong. Here's a quick list: OJ, the Bobbitts, Waco, Zippergate, Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center, Jeffrey Dahmer, and let's not forget that Benigni guy. Don't think we've seen it all, either, because we're just getting started.
