Not only does the Daily Mail scoop US news, it provides context and detail instantaneously. Those poor people. As I look at them, I cannot help but wonder what formed their humanity, their interests, their presence, their thinking. And I do not mean that in a disparaging way; it is only that they are so different from what I see and know. I suppose the fact that we are all God’s children is explanation enough.
/it is only that they are so different from what I see and know.
I live in a college town in flyover country. I was a professor, now working in an administrative capacity. We’ve got all kinds - pink hair; goths; big, blond farm boys; black kids with dreads, and ‘regular’ looking people of all races. You can’t judge from outward appearance. Most of them are nice people - and you’d be surprised at how many ‘out there’ looking kids don’t do drugs and are actually pretty straight.
I look at these pictures and think any of them could be walking around campus and I wouldn’t think twice. They are somebody’s child and it’s tragic what probably has happened to them.