TSU shooting less tragic than VT. Less important too?

A shooting at Texas Southern University in Houston happened late last night and wounded at least eight people, some of them attended TSU. Students and their families were gathered for a festival that offered music, free backpacks and school supplies, immunizations, and also enforced voter registration.

Ok, so here’s my two cents. TSU is predominately a black school, and that was probably why I didn’t here anything about it until 24 hours later. Now I am writing about it because I don’t understand why it wasn’t all over the TV news right after it happened like the Virginia Tech shooting. I mean, yeah, nobody died at TSU, but does someone actually have to die for it too make headlines. Does it make it any less serious? What I feel in my gut is, since most of the Virginia Tech victims were white, the incident was a lot more news worthy. If it’s black and gang related, its just another day.

Don’t get me wrong, the TSU shooting was on the internet news, and it made the local Houston television news. But I am afraid that was about it. The shooters might have been gang members, sources say, but the victims weren’t. I think victims are victims. Black, white, brown, it doesn’t matter. These were students and their families in the way of bullets, not gang members.

It seems the only blacks worthy of regular air time have to be prominent members of the community, like Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., or celebrities like Micheal Jackson. Other than that, then who the fuck cares, right?

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"I don't want the po po at my do do" - Madea Goes To Jail

So there is all this hubbub going on about Cambridge police officer James M. Crowley arresting Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home. My first questions are to the woman, a neighbor of Gates, who placed the call to the police about two black men breaking into the house next door: Hey lady, do you even know who the fuck your neighbors are? If there is someone as esteemed as Gates, a friend of the President’s no less, living in your neighborhood, you would think that info would have made it’s way to the ears of gossiping housewives already. You managed to see two black men, but didn’t see the suitcases and the cab parked out front. It was the cab driver who was with Gates, both trying to get the door unstuck. What kind of stupid, bigot bitch are you, who can’t get to know your black neighbors? And this is

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to both Officer Crowley and the woman neighbor: How many old men in slacks and a blazer, supporting themselves with a cane do you know of who rob houses. Crowley you are a stupid little bitch who won’t own up to a mistake.

A true story about me. I moved into an apartment once and had only been there a couple days. Not many people saw me move in. One late night I came back to my apartment and realized that I had stupidly locked myself out. So with no other choice, I started kicking the door in. It was so loud, bang bang bang with my foot. Took me about 10 minutes to break the door in. People walked by, looked at me, and kept walking. The cops never came. Now, is that because I am white?

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