>Right now, I'm listening to commentary on the shooting in Colorado, all
>of which has been utterly reactionary, not unlike the comments expressed
Yes. An full of sobbing voices citing the bible. Pretty nauseating.
>the failure of radicals over the years to provide some critical
>idealogical and political avenues of expression for these kids; not a
>word about the fundamentally anti-youth tendencies of American schools;
Oh yes. I was appalled by everyone's (parents, teachers, administrators, the so-called elected representatives) infatuation with fascist discipline in my son's HS - and people thinking I'm crazy when I objected to it. My son's departing salvo, however, was an entry in the school yearbook calling the administration a bunch of arrogant control freaks.
>nothing about the tell-tell differences between what white kids tend to
>do with guns and what Black kids tend to do with guns...why is anybody
>shocked that this is happening?
I am not. In fact, I am surprised that so little of it is happening - given the society we live in.
Wojtek