What happened in Colorado was horrible, horrific, and devastating to a community. But I have to ask - why is it school shootings that are just as devastating that happen to occur in mostly black schools (and I’m not even saying urban black schools, I happen to have gone to a mostly black high school in suburban south Florida) don’t get this sort of high level treatment from the New York Times and the cable news channels?
In the corporate media, non-white lives aren’t as valuable as white lives. If they were, then the corporate media would have a harder time helping to sell our government’s avaricious wars on brown people around the globe.
I’m not sure what the reason is, but I am pretty certain it’s the same one that the quarterly national missing child traqgedy story is inevitably about a blonde white girl.