From Postsecret. Think this has anything to do with VT? Do you really believe there is not relationship between the race-driven media and fear? Here were other comments made after this postcard was sent to Postsecret. —-Email Message—–Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:33 PMSubject: Asians Scare Me Don’t worry, after VT, we have more reasons […]

I am on a listserve for people involved and work for women’s issues. One of the emails I received this week was concerning whether or not any violence against a woman would/should be considered a hate crime. If someone is targeted, just because she is s woman, similar to if an individual was targeted just […]

Thanks to BFP who got it from Priscilla. What May Come: Asian Americans and the Virginia Tech Shootings Tamara K. Nopper April 17, 2007 Like many, I was glued to the television news yesterday, keeping updated about the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech University. I was trying to deal with my own disgust and sadness, […]

And one more thing about my disgust with the media today, as if Imus and the circus around that fiasco isn’t enough – I’m SO, SO glad we know that the gunman is Asian. (Never mind my vendetta with the umbrella use of that term.) So often people wonder by “people of color” see race […]

Adonis and I spent last night watching, thinking, and talking about what has happened at Virgina Tech. Every perspective I read about influences that way I see it. It’s interesting to hear the global perspective; how lax our gun laws are, a nation that “seemingly has self-defense written in their DNA” with its citizens who […]