Accused Killer of 3 Is Linked to Racist Writing (fwd)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:54 PM 3/2/00 -1000, Stephen Philion wrote:
>NY Times March 3, 2000
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>Accused Killer of 3 Is Linked to Racist Writing
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>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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>     W ILKINSBURG, Pa., March 2 -- A black man accused of killing three
>     people and wounding two in a shooting rampage had anti-white
>     writings in his apartment and singled out whites during the attack,
>     reassuring a black woman in his path, "Not you, sister," the
>     authorities and witnesses said today.

All I see is a deranged individual whose actions are being transformed into
a political icon and imbued with political meaning by the media.  

In all likelihood, the guy was a nut-case dressing his craziness in an
ideology.  Paranoid schizophrenics do it quite often.  However, in the
media reports, this act of madness is being transformed to a political
action - a rational expression of the irrational ideology.  

That is the epitome of how the media and culture industry operates inthis
country (and elsewhere, I presume) - facts are becoming mere icons or
signifiers of cultural and political myths.

wojtek
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