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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (334237)	4/19/2007 8:25:38 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572460

From that link - "When you've got a white guy going crazy, [his ethnicity] doesn't stand out because most mass killings are done by whites. But when you have two rare things occurring like this, people tend to overestimate the frequency of the occurrence" and make a connection between group membership and behavior that doesn't exist.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (334237)	4/20/2007 1:38:29 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572460

Good article. I bet not one white person on this thread worried the shooter might be white, and if so, how people would react to that fact. Its very sad that that was the first thought of some minorities: "My first thought when I heard initial reports [of the shootings] was 'Oh my God, I hope it's not a black person,' " African American commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson said. "It's a visceral reaction, a reflection of this country's long history of typecasting all minorities." "Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the national Muslim Public Affairs Council, said he waited with dread Tuesday to find out whether the Virginia Tech killer might be Muslim or Middle Eastern. When the gunman was identified as a South Korean national, Al-Marayati said, he felt overwhelming relief, quickly replaced by guilt, and then by sadness that another immigrant community would be in the spotlight." "Former Huntington Park Mayor Ric Loya said he experienced a sense of relief when he learned the gunman was not a Latino. "It's horrible, but I found myself thinking, 'I'm glad it wasn't us. We're in the spotlight enough.' It's weird; I don't know why I'd think that. You look back at all these mass shootings and it's never a Latino.""