sheer potentiality

Number of Americans killed on April 16: 33
Number of Iraqis killed on April 18: 172
Number of Facebook profile pictures changed to memorialize dead Americans: 4*
Number of Facebook profile pictures changed to memorialize dead Iraqis: 0*
Number of WSU campus memorials for dead Americans: 1
Number of WSU campus memorials for dead Iraqis: 0
172/33: 5.2121…

What does this say about us as a people?

*Out of 64 Facebook friends

Tags: group identity, hypocrisy, iraq, racism, virginia tech

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