Another campus shooting?

In the last 10 days, there have been two shootings on US campuses. In both cases the victims were black. These are distinct from the recent rampage killings like VA Tech. While those events are horrible, they are the last acts of men (usually white, though Cho was Asian), who feel isolated and victimized by society and strike back ferociously.

These last two shooting represent something more dangerous. As the violence from the inner city rap culture moved into the suburbs in the 80s and 90s, we are now seeing it follow black students onto college campuses all over the country.

The rampage killers like Cho are akin to terrorists in their impact. They create devastation, but actually pull people together in reaction. These new crimes, which (like black urban crime in general) will become more and more common until they are no longer "news". They do not create unity, but division.

Black urban crime is a cancer, coming to a campus near you.