He Was Only 17...

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5. "Peter Bailey died three weeks ago ...."

Trayvon died on February 26th. Since then, there have been about 75,000 violent crimes, and about 900 homicides. Over 2,000 people have died in car accidents.

Many, all too many young lives are cut short. I am not getting why Trayvon is supposed to be the only one I care about. How is he more important than the two young girls I mentioned? Is it just because he has the face that launched a thousand threads?

And I am quite sure that my post here will create more anger and maybe even some hateful responses. It is not that I do not care about Trayvon, but I do not care more about Trayvon than I do about Ranisha and Jalisa, et. al.. Why don't they get even one thread for the two of them?

Maybe Wonk would agree with me, if he was still here.

Wonk, if anybody remembers, was a DUer from 2002 or so. He got mad when there were threads expressing compassion for a FReeper whose child had died. He said that thousands of people die every day, and to prove his point, he started spamming DU with threads about people dying. He did it, I think, for several days and was given multiple warnings before he finally got a pizza.