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Yesterday as I was getting dressed for class, Ras called from the other room, “Have you read the news?  There’s been a massive shooting in Virginia.”  At school, the other teachers and I talked about the shooting during the day.  There are monitors in the elevators and the cafeteria that broadcast CNN, so that’s how we got updated on what was going on.  During lunch, there were six of us having lunch as we watched CNN.  News was breaking about the description of the shooter – he was Asian and about 6 feet tall.  The first thing we all said, was that he’s either Chinese or Korean.  Actually, most of our hunches was that he was Korean… don’t know why, just a feeling.
I was watching an ABC News podcast this morning, and they were talking about the internet response to the shooting.  Even though there were some people referring to his race, others had enough sense to see that the shooter’s race shouldn’t matter.  There are many, many depressed people in the world, in this case, he just happened to be Asian.

For more information, check out The Marmot’s Hole, which is very comprehensive.  There isn’t a lot of news in the Korean English newspapers, but LOTS of stuff in the Korean news sites.  My students knew details about the shooting that even I didn’t.  Such sad news.  I’m glued to my computer reading about what happened, since I don’t have a TV.