The Blog | Earl Ofari Hutchinson: "An Asian Man" | The Huffington Post: "Then there is the sheer monstrous magnitude of the Virginia Tech rampage. It was by far the worst mass attack by one individual in American history, and nearly every single news report and broadcast has prefaced the story on the killings with that tagline. This insures that Cho's name, and though seldom stated publicly, whispered by many privately, that he was a Korean non-citizen, and an immigrant. This fact will be indelibly imprinted in the public record and perhaps the public mind for years to come..." [my bold]
Sigh. Go here for something worse. Then here. None of these links in any way mediate the horror of the murders at VaTech, but let's at least maintain some accuracy of statement.
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