Given that these cases usually involve minors — one shooter was age 7
— the evidence that the police and media provide does not always
include names or photos. In a few of these cases, I have had to deduce
the race of the shooter from the milieu of the shooting and the identity
of the victims, bystanders, and witnesses. In thirteen of the cases, as
best as I can figure, the shooter was black. In the fourteenth case, a
fatal one out of Albuquerque, the accused 13-year-old shooter was, in
fact, Hispanic and the 13- year-old victim black.
The Albuquerque shooting on August 13 was the first this school year.
On August 18, in Orangeburg South Carolina, a 14-year- old opened fire
in the high school parking lot, wounding three. On August 27, in
Woodbridge, Virginia, a teenager shot and wounded two students in his
high school parking lot. On September 1, a student at a Winston-Salem
High School shot and killed another student. And the list goes on.
Erica might take comfort knowing that none of these 14 shootings
resulted in mass casualties as occurred most notoriously at Columbine
and Sandy Hook. Although white students were responsible in both those
cases, white males have no monopoly even on the mass shooting subset of
the larger phenomenon.
In November 2019, for instance, an Asian-American student named Nate
Berhow shot five of his Santa Clarita, California, classmates before
shooting and killing himself. In 2007, unforgettably, a Korean student
shot 49 others at Virginia Tech, killing 32 during the most lethal
school shooting in American History.
For all the disinformation the major media spreads, on no other
subject are they as consistently and perversely wrong. Indeed, to even
suggest that white males dominate school shootings makes nomore sense
than to suggest white males dominate the NBA. Counting on the ignorance
of the public, academics take race and crime disinformation to another
level still. Consider this excerpt from a 2020 article by Joshua Gregory
in the journal Children & Schools:
Even though nearly all school shootings are committed by white
students, no etiological theory has contemplated the possibility that
whiteness contributes in any meaningful way to the perpetration of
school shootings…. The present article takes up the task of beginning to
theorize the relationship between whiteness and school shootings,
exploring the likelihood that whiteness acts as a moderator, leading
whites, but not non-whites, to commit school shootings in response to
similar antecedents.
To report that “nearly all school shootings are committed by white
students” is Orwellian in its wrongness. Gregory, who is himself white,
teaches in the Social Welfare program at UC-Berkeley. Not surprisingly,
his work ”focuses on whiteness and neo- abolitionism (the abolition of
whiteness), critical theory and philosophy, histories of whiteness and
social welfare, and the integration of critical theories with social
work praxis modalities and research methodologies.” Despite the Berkeley
gig, this taxpayer-funded CRT propagandist is no more a scholar than Al
Sharpton or AOC.
Denying reality has consequences. In their race-addled wisdom,
officials of the Broward County, Florida, School District convinced
themselves a few years back that the huge differential in arrests
between white and black students had less to do with actual behavior
than it did with institutional racism.
To minimize the arrest gap, the school district adopted a program
that allowed school officials, not the police, to determine what acts
deserved referral to the criminal justice system. To make the issue seem
less stark, authorities cloaked the black/white crime disparity with
EEOC boilerplate about “students of color.” This semantic game-playing
opened the door for a young man named Nikolas de Jesus Cruz to continue
his violent ways unchecked.
In February 2018, that violence culminated in the deadliest high
school shooting in American history. Cruz shot 34 of his fellow
students, killing 17. This shooting happened specifically because the
school district designated Cruz as a POC.
Parkland was on you and your friends, Erica. Think about it before the next time you tweet.
Jack Cashill’s latest book, Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, is now widely available.
