[Peace-discuss] Mourn

[Karen Medina]

The loss of any life is to be mourned. One cannot choose which is more pale, violent death, ignorance of a plight, or slow hunger, for they are all dark.

-karen medina

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>If we are to mourn for the Va Tech victims, we should make sure we aren't being too ethnocentric.  The violence done to the poor, and especially to non-white poor people all over the globe is so commonplace that the violence perpetrated against the unfortunate victims of the Virginia Tech massacre pales in 
>comparison.
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>   and funding better diagnosis and treatment of mental
>   illness...