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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It makes me so angry the way the headline was written---like if she hadn't been college bound it wouldn't be as sad.  [/quote]

Exactly. It's so racist. Black girl was going to college, but she was gunned down instead. SMH. [/quote]

Sadly, if you google those words "college-bound" and "killed," you will see that it is a sad and common headline for children of any race who die the summer before college, including this child, the white boy whose parachute didn't open in California, the black girl killed in a road rage incident in PA, the black boy killed in a Craig's list sale gone bad in Fla., the white boy stuck by lightening in AZ, the kids killed in car accidents, the drug overdoses, the suicides, and on and on and on. They are all children whose lives ended far, far too soon, and the summer before college. "College bound" is a part of their personal life stories.

She was leaving in just a week; the article talks about that, so the headline is on point. Every individual has a story. This was part of hers. Please, let people mourn without making it about something its not. This one article is about this one child and the future she has been denied.[/quote]

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