WHERE IS INDIAN COMMUNITY OUTRAGE?? Without civil action or community service, the indian voice will never be heard. You must stand up for your fellow man. You can not expect others to do it for you.

Where are the Indian Student Associations?? They should be forming teams with ISA all over LA. (& the nation for that matter) to demand better security on college campuses for ALL students. Gov-elect Jindal should be held accountable for not demanding LSU step up security measures as promised.

There is much you can do. I am not indian, but I am ashamed that the govt & the campus officials have done so little. I am also stunned that the indian community just let this slide without doing enough. Perhaps that is why nothing is being done by officials.

It’s not enough to feel deeply sorry. You must do something.

You make yourselves easy targets by remaining quiet. BE HEARD!!

But if the killers were White you would care and so would the American media and that’s the point. America LOOOOUUUUVES it’s White Devils, especially it’s Southern variety. If the killers had been White the media would have picked up the story as a “hate crime” and they would be off and running. See the Duke rape hoax case!!

Most crimes in which the victims are of the White American “mainstream” get little or no attention. The fact that a few cases get relentless attention creates the illusion of greater attention to White victims.

But the other issue relates to my earlier post. Why do people on this site give greater attention to this case than the case I refered to above? Class bias? Do the people on this site better identify with college graduate students than gas station workers on the night shift?

This, I think, has a lot to do with the identity of the victims. They were, in some way, “not like us”.

But consider this: When I searched “LSU murders” on Google News when this was still just days old, there were over a thousand news items. A lot of them were from the Indian press. But some European and international papers also carried. BBC world had it as their main article for some time. Contrast this with the coverage in the US. Minimal. Of the small number of articles, some focused on the failure of the text alert system. Apart from brief articles in a couple of local news sources and a brief report in the NYT, there was nothing! This, I think, has a lot to do with the identity of the victims. They were, in some way, “not like us”. I can think of two things:

1. They were Indians and not Americans.
2. They were graduate students – adults living their own lives. So parents of college kids didn’t feel quite the same “If this happened to those kids, this could happen to our kids” feeling.

For one of these reasons, most people here did not relate to the incident and were not shocked.

Amen. But it’s in tragic cases like this that the ugliness reveals itself. Better that it’s in plain view and on the record. The psychological legacy of oppression maintains itself long after the specific political and economic relations of oppression have disappeared. Behold the results! Divided and conquered, capable of the most acrobatic acts of compartmentalization, and drenched in anxiety.

Peace to the deceased, their families, the ancestors. Liberation awaits.

They caught them?

Their killer Leon Davis, Jr has been captured. He’s also charged with setting on fire two Latino women he robbed, killing one and killing the unborn baby of the other.

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=51532