Tag: violence
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A Perspective On Tragedy And Hope
(originally uploaded by LeggNet) On Dying In Virginia The Black Iris of Jordan I was kind of shocked and saddened to hear about the shooting in Virginia Tech that has dominated western media in the past 48 hours, especially the Internet. I tend to pay close attention to how such incidents unravel in the media […]
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The Greensboro Massacre On Steroids
Exactly eighty-one years before the mess of 11/3/1979, a coalition of white leaders and white supremacists took to the streets in Wilmington, North Carolina, killing over a hundred African-Americans in the process of performing a coup d’etat. The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 was tragic on three distinct levels: A group of white political and […]
You Are Standing In An Open Field 