On Nov 29, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Nov 29, 2004, at 2:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There may have been racial slurs flying along with the bullets. I mean, if I
was being hunted down by a psychopath cambodian sharpshooter in the woods, I
think I might use a few choice words like " You crazy fu&*in' Cambodian!
Stop shooting at me!" as the bullets are flying by.
How would you would know that he was Cambodian? How would you know he wasn't Vietnamese? Laotian? Thai? Hmong?
I can't imagine that I'd even think to bring up his ethnicity. I might say "You crazy fu&*in' psychopath! Stop shooting at me!" Or I might shut the hell up and hide, rather than give him a nice, loud target to shoot at.
He's Hmong. What you probably don't know, because you don't live there (I used to until earlier this year) is that in north/central Wisconsin the Hmong community is facing a lot of problems, not the lest of which is ethnic bias.
However it faces other challenges; of the gang activity that exists among youth in Wausau (and it is shocking to realize there IS such activity in such a small town), a significant minority of gang members are Hmong -- disproportionate to the general population.
So I *can* see how the other hunters could have tossed some slurs around, and that this guy felt -- or was! threatened; contrarily I can also see this guy being somewhat around the bend and simply going on a shooting spree, figuring he'd never get caught.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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