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As an avid reader of ColorLines, I was very disappointed to see absolutely no coverage of Seung-Hui Cho or the "Virginia Tech massacre" in your May/June 2007 issue. Its absence was particularly deafening given your mission to "prioritize the critical stories other publications ignore."
And yet, in some ways I'm not surprised. While I've always enjoyed reading your publication, I've grown accustomed to its scant focus on East Asian Americans, in general (Jeff Chang's witty but old articles--the latest was 2002, I think--notwithstanding). But when an East Asian "American" person of color commits the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history, and "the National Newsmagazine on Race and Politics" idly stands by, I could no longer stay quiet.
Ironically, ColorLines' silence parallels a similar silence within the East Asian American community, where not talking about problems is considered ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Angry Asian man.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)