BLACKTACTIX

Why is it that incidents such as the Jena 6 affair don't warrant a slew of psychologists and grief counselors flooding into schools to administer to black children. Time after time, the media reports on such tactics immediately occurring after incidents that occur in other schools. In fact, there was the closing of an old catholic school up here which had been announced a year ahead of the actual closing. However, when it occurred there was around-the-clock coverage of grieving parents and students pulling their hair out (on camera) and bordering on hysteria. A cadre of grief counselors descended on the school to counsel them..."don't despair, there's a brand new modern public school down the street..." "this school is old and unsafe...it's crumbling around you and there's no money to fix it..."

Recently a troubled kid named Asa Coon (probably the original source of his troubles) shot up his school and killed himself. I saw black students crying and visibly upset after the shooting and the media concentrated on the fact that the one security guard was there exclusively to protect the administration. The aftermath of the story was that the school installed metal detectors thru which everyone would have to pass to gain entry into the school. No grief counselors. I can't imagine that the black students at the Louisiana school weren't upset seeing nooses swinging from the trees on school grounds. Possibly if professional counselors had been brought in immediately, the subsequent escalations would not have occurred.

Is it a testament to the resiliance of black people that they can witness any horror and just 'keep on keeping on' or will they, in time, become the serial killers, child predators, mercenaries, mass murderers, etc. like the pampered, dominant society in this country?

I hope you guys won't think I'm becoming obsessed with the negative aspects of things. It's just that I'm exposed to more of it since I'm more exposed to the media. Think I'll go take photos before all the autumn colors disappear.