When the news broke for the school shooting in Cleveland I was taken aback. I saw the faces of black students on the news but was surprised when I didn't see the face of the shooter(the media is quick to blast the photos of minority assailants regardless of age). Then I heard the name, hmmm, Asa Coon, hmmm, let me do some research. I found a Myspace profile. It may be fake, you can be the judge- myspace.com/asacoon, and from recent developments we know he's a Marylin Mason fan and "Goth"(stereotypical white adolescent angst profile) troubled and violent. Violence on all levels are disheartening (thank God he did kill anyone) and to see our youth living with such hopelessness is hard to digest but when I see the disparities of the way tragedies are reported in the media when commited by minorities and caucausions I'm sickened. Minorities are criminalized and caucasions are romanticized for empathy.
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