sageb1
04-06-2008, 09:37 PM
http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/cho-seung-hui-stereotyped-to-death/
Please note that none of the black female professors who had to tutor Seung Hui Cho were listened to by VTech administration.
This makes me wonder if any attempt to sue the university is going ahead at all.
Like this one in April 2007: http://www.roanoke.com/vtreactions/wb/114130
And this newscast from Fox: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/virginia-tech-lawsuit/841011574
In September 2007, Virginia Gov'r tried to mitigate the pending suit: http://hamptonroads.com/node/320921
Though, the press in that story portrayed the VTech president as lacking compassion. He probably assumed showing compassion was a sign of weakness. Obviously this guy's not showing true Hokie spirit there.
By October 2007, the lawsuit case gets coverage: http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/10517512.html
As recent as March 25, 2008, VTech families of victims of the horrible shooting almost a year ago were offered $100,000 in what amounts to hush money not to pursue their lawsuit.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3617529.ece
A commentator responded to that post at the Times UK asking, "How can this have been the worst massacre in American history. What about the Indians?"
Well, the Indians suffered genocide by colonialists and their descendants. Cho was merely a nutbar. Tho some BIA policies were certainly ill-advised and potentially genocidal i.e. residential schools.
Yet one root of Cho's murderous impulse was systemic bullying from a young age.
I do think the depression angle of Koreans (and East Asians such as Japanese and Chinese people) does need to be examined further.
Please note that none of the black female professors who had to tutor Seung Hui Cho were listened to by VTech administration.
This makes me wonder if any attempt to sue the university is going ahead at all.
Like this one in April 2007: http://www.roanoke.com/vtreactions/wb/114130
And this newscast from Fox: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/virginia-tech-lawsuit/841011574
In September 2007, Virginia Gov'r tried to mitigate the pending suit: http://hamptonroads.com/node/320921
Though, the press in that story portrayed the VTech president as lacking compassion. He probably assumed showing compassion was a sign of weakness. Obviously this guy's not showing true Hokie spirit there.
By October 2007, the lawsuit case gets coverage: http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/10517512.html
As recent as March 25, 2008, VTech families of victims of the horrible shooting almost a year ago were offered $100,000 in what amounts to hush money not to pursue their lawsuit.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3617529.ece
A commentator responded to that post at the Times UK asking, "How can this have been the worst massacre in American history. What about the Indians?"
Well, the Indians suffered genocide by colonialists and their descendants. Cho was merely a nutbar. Tho some BIA policies were certainly ill-advised and potentially genocidal i.e. residential schools.
Yet one root of Cho's murderous impulse was systemic bullying from a young age.
I do think the depression angle of Koreans (and East Asians such as Japanese and Chinese people) does need to be examined further.