First of all, our prayers and condolences go out to all affected by the recent unfortunate events at Virginia Tech. As the media has reported, the suspected gunman, Cho Seung-Hui was a 23 year old student from South Korea (Yahoo! News link). Although he moved to the United States fourteen years ago in 1992, the mass media has already repeatedly stressed his ethnic background, immediately causing anti-Korean and anti-Asian backlash. Also, the number of apparently hate-based Facebook groups (I found one group called "Deport Cho Seung-hui's Parents and drag his corpse through the streets" and another called "Your Group may hate Cho Seung Hui...but my group calls him a GOOK!") established today is very disturbing. Please spread proper awareness that this will NOT be tolerated.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Virginia Tech Shootings
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