School Shootings and White Denial

[Dennis]

> Two more white children are dead and thirteen are injured, and another
> "nice" community is scratching its blonde head, utterly perplexed at how a
> school shooting the likes of the one yesterday in Santee, California could
> happen. After all, as the Mayor of the town said in an interview with CNN:
> "We're a solid town, a good town, with good kids, a good church-going
> town.an All-American town." Yeah, well maybe that's the problem.
>

As a friend of mine who lives in LA said to me after Columbine, these
suburban school shootings are the ultimate wigga acts: white boys playing
drive-by in "safe" and "secure" neighborhoods. "Menace 2 Society" as
directed by John Hughes or Cameron Crowe.

DP