Tim Wise

About the author: Tim Wise is a race relations activist and a writer whose work appears regularly in Z Magazine.

White American society refuses to acknowledge that its children are the ones responsible for school shootings. The media encourage this belief by ignoring the race of the shooters in their analyses of the massacres. The unwillingness of white parents to recognize the problems facing white adolescents, including higher rates of drug use than their African-American peers, has prevented society from taking steps to reduce the number of these violent incidents.

Ican think of no other way to say this, so here goes: white people need to pull our heads out of our collective ass.

Two more white children are dead and thirteen are injured, and another "nice" community...