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>I think that there is a racist element in this emphasis on Waco (just as
>there has always been a racist element in the way Kent State stands
>up so boldly in memory (and the news at the time) while many such
>assaults in the south were virtually ignored. It is not an "active"
>racism
>in the sense of people saying (even to themselves) "White lives are
>more important than black lives." Rather somehow instances of
>police violence against blacks are simply not remembered as vividly.
I don't know the numbers, but many of the people inside the Davidian compound were black. Perhaps you'd say that the perception was that they were all white, and perhaps you'd be right, but I'm not sure how you'd support that.
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>Surely the murder of Fred Hampton and the bombing of MOVE
>headquarters were more shocking and cold blooded than the attack
>on WACO.
More?
-david