The Killer, Not The Killed

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/08/the_killer_not_the_killed.php
Sara Whitman
8/17/2008

Once again, Lawrence King is in the news. His parents have filed a lawsuit against the school for "not enforcing the dress code."

I think I'm going to scream.

Lawrence King wore feminine attire to school. He wore what all the girls were wearing. He was a kid with serious issues, often out of control, and in need of help. No one is questioning that.

But when is anyone going to ask questions about the killer? When the kids were killed in the Columbine High School shooting, no one asked what they did to get themselves killed. Every moment of the press coverage was dedicated to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

This is the most sense I have yet seen combined in one essay about the entire Lawrence King murder.

Indeed, the old American press tactic of deconstructing the victim when the mudered is some type of minority plays again and again and does quite well for the ignorant and bigoted.

A wonderful, intelligent and right on traget essay.

Nichole