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News & Letters
May 1999
Column: Black World
Touchstone of 'American civilization'
by Lou Turner
Excerpt
(quote) Black life has never been anything but cheap in America. In the carnage of two deranged neo-fascist youth at Columbine, white America found that it was not spared such hatred, a hatred that its conservative culture the last 25 years convinced it to treat with "benign neglect."
In their Hitler's birthday attack on their classmates, Harris and Klebold, made clear their hatred for Blacks. Indeed, there is no more chilling account of the Columbine massacre than the one of the young white woman student who told of being targeted in the Columbine library by Harris and then being passed over when he saw a Black student. "I hate n--rs!", Harris screamed, and then pumped bullets into the head of Isaiah Shoels.
The media, and apparently much of white America, continue to ignore the racist handwriting on the wall, at the same time as they overindulge themselves in dime-store psychologism about our so-called "youth problem." In the same week as the Columbine massacre, there was more than enough evidence of a youth culture whose mind and spirit stays on freedom at mass youth marches in Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, April 24, in support of Mumia and other political and death row prisoners.
Black, white, Latino and Asian youth have seen something in the Black dimension of "American civilization" that not only squares with their own rejection of this degenerate society but represents a radical challenge to it, in thought and in action.