http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20070918_Willingboro_school_locked_down_after_gunfire.html
So why wasn't this on CNN? Why didn't the country freeze at the sound of this incident? I mean, we all know that Kanye West wasn't lying when he stunned the nation a few years ago on television when he said "George Bush does not care about Black people." But it's not just the President. 200+ kids would have lost their lives in an elementary school and nobody is fired up about it. All these innocent LITTLE children would have lost their opportunity to succeed and nobody is reporting it. The fact that school was open the next day is further heightens my level of anger and disdain at the Willingboro schools system. Surely, they can't assume that these children are used to the sound of gunshots and don't value their own lives. Had this happened in the white burbs then the children would have a week of on-going trauma therapy and myriad procedural safety drills. But it's as if they're assuming that black kids are immune to trauma. Imagine how they feel about going to school and hearing gunshots? Surely, some of them MUST be scared out of their wits. But nobody cares...If a tree falls in the woods kinda thing u know? Yeah well that's my two cents for today.
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What freaks me out about this is that my best friend (since we were 3 1/2) lives about 4 1/2 miles from this school in Burlington Township. I don't think it is the school her son would have gone to next year, but I don't know. I'm sort of glad they are moving to Texas.
Whether or not Nicholas would be going there it really bothers me that it happened. Why have these events become so common place in our society? It is so sad and so scary to think that so little care is given to these children. That is an elementary school! Who would do that? Why aren't more people up in arms about it? Why aren't there ways to prevent things like these from happening? Things like this need more coverage nationally. (I do know that it was on the local news in Philly and NJ, because my brother and my bff said they saw it.) The whole country should have known though, you're right. More people need to be aware of how unsafe schools are these days. We need to find a way to make more people care an move towards change.
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