Virginia Tech Tragedy
This recent Virginia Tech Shooting that’s stirring every aware mind is another sad story . So many people died and I can feel how painful it is to grieve more so that its a sudden and a tragic loss.
As I go on, I hope not to sound judgemental and presumptuous on Cho Seung-Hui’s reasons. What he did was deplorably unforgivable. His mental state was first put to blame but as a perceiver, I pity him. He was an angry lost unguided soul. Just hearing her grand mother say, “that idiot” reflects what kind of family support he has. Another is the school playwright he wrote: “I like to kill you”, referring to his step father indicates abuse.
I just hate how the media vultures make a feast out of it. The assassin’s hate message is also disturbing for it might trigger copycats and idolatry. Human nature also being shown like putting blame on who ever and what ever they could come up with - The school, police, gun seller etc…
Last week here in Italy, a Filipino teenage boy threw himself off the window and died. In his suicide note, he was bullied and mocked as gay at school. Her mother’s cry on TV was a sound of crashed dream. What a pity over a good son and an A student whose hopes of not having a job as ‘katulong’(maid) was sent to grave because he was different.
A neighbor Filipino 16 year old boy asked me, “Tita, magkano po kaya tuition ng college sa atin(Pinas)? Tita, huwag mong sasabihin kay Mommy, di nila maiintindihan”(Aunt, How much is the tuition fee in the Philippine? Don’t tell mom, she won’t understand) I asked him why and he told me he is fed up with racism at school. Often bullied as “immigrant” and worst, calling him son of a whore. The irony is his parents want to keep the family together but its killing their son inside. School for him here is hell while for his parents - it was hope.
A sad fact here, seldom do Filipino youngsters get through college. Menial jobs are easy out there with a salary not far from the blue collared work. They’d rather be dishwashers than to be singled out as obvious minorities.
The prior mentioned tragedy may be far from what I stated about the racism. Its not even incomparable but I just would like to point out that if a young mind is not that strong to fight, add a home with out love and support plus a lonely childhood, then a Cho Seung-Hui is really different
