Angry White Boy
by Marty Nemko
"What's the common thread among the school shootings at Columbine, Jonesboro, Paducah, Conyers, Oregon, Alberta, and the other copycats? The shooters were all alienated middle-class white males.
What's different about now versus previous decades? Why have all these school shootings emerged now? Until recently, alienated middle-class white male teens could take solace in their being accepted, indeed, extolled by mainstream society. Today, however, the white male teen who is rejected by peers is also de facto rejected by the mainstream society that he sees: every school and media celebration of Blacks, gays, women, etc., is by omission, a denigration of straight white males. Middle- and upper-class white males are often referred to in the curriculum as oppressors and in sitcoms as boors or evil. Hollywood, in part in fear of being called racist, is bending over backwards to, where possible, make the bad guy a white male.
Most teens are deeply concerned with being accepted. Today's middle-class white male teen, if rejected by peers, neglected by too-busy parents, and now, for the first time, denigrated by society, may consider violence; they feel unaccepted, unloved--an intolerable situation for many teens. While gun control and better parent-child communication are, of course, partial answers, I believe that an essential part of the solution is to ensure that the media and schools aren't celebratory of everyone but white males."
The rest of the article is here, Angry White Boy
Any bets that it was not against the law for the Columbine shooters to have gun on campus?
And any other bets that the shooting that recently happened up in a Minnesota school broke all kinds of laws?
I apologize but I must run. I'll read your article later.
Drugs. One way or another, illegal drugs are directly or indirectly involved.