Brisenia Flores was a 9-year-old child, a pretty little brown-skinned girl with shining black, curly hair and big dark eyes. But her racist, vigilante murderer saw none of that as he calmly reloaded his pistol and shot her in the face.
Christina Taylor-Green was a 9-year-old child, a pretty little fair-skinned girl with wavy brunette hair, and big dark eyes. But the insane gunman who shot her saw none of that as he marched through the screaming crowd, firing a seemingly never-ending stream of bullets from his extended clip at any human being in front of him, including Christina.
Christina Taylor-Green gets a nine-foot, 11-inch statue of an angel, made with steel from the twin towers (she was born the day the towers fell), the memories of politicians and celebrities, and stories in the New York Times, CNN, and any of dozens of media outlets you'd like to name.
Brisenia Flores gets a small grave, the memory of her mother, and a small article in a local paper, this column, a blog called The Three Sonorans in the Tucson Citizen, another blog called LatinaLista.net, and The Wonkette, a highly respected New York column. Most recently, one paper, the Arizona Daily Star, has chronicled the conviction of Jason Bush, the trigger-man in her murder. These are her only memorials
So, again... with feeling: Where the hell is Brisenia's statue, Governor Brewer?! Or were you planning to raise one to Shawna Forde?
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I give you that the media is just going with what will draw readers. That only means however that the readers are prejudiced if they will be more interested in one than the other.
Which of the two would have interested you more?
Where were the criers of racism in 2009 when Brisenia Flores was murdered? Why not demand to know where her memorial was then?
You don't have a CLUE to what you just posted????Please read your own wisdom.
Why not demand to know where her memorial was then?
At that time there were NO Memorials for victims of reicht wing loons! Only NOW when the victims are IMPORTANT does it matter.
You should open your eyes to see the obvious.
By the way, the shooter of Christina Taylor-Green was a left-wing pot head. It wasn't widely reported by the media, but if you do your research you'd find that out. That is why the story kind of disappeared, to be replaced by things like this.
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Gather is irrelevant, other than that the political debaters here have probably fought over who gets to use these families tragedies as political fodder like a pack of dogs fighting over a piece of meat. This is sad and wrong.
Tucson shooting victim honored by angel statue
By Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic
The statue was considered at the March 16 meeting of the Oro Valley Town Council. It had a quick path through town bureaucracy. A report to the council from the parks and recreation department said, "Because of the expedited timing of the installation and dedication, the typical board and commission recommendations are not provided."
Before the vote, Leslie Crist, a friend of the Green family, spoke to the council. "Having the (angel) in our park overlooking the children playing and growing would, I believe, be a source of great strength," she told them.
She said the angel would turn the park into a healing place, much like the angel did at Ground Zero and at the Flight 93 field.
The council was told, according to the agenda, that the angel would be a "replica of the 9/11 World Trade Center Angel and will be provided by a foundation composed of families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragedy." The vote was unanimous.
I think you guys are trying to make nothing into political fodder using the deaths of these two little girls, and I think it's terribly shameful.
Your article does, however, raise the unfortunately asymmetry in standards we hold - all too often we and the media ignore most victims while giving iconic attention to others.
I see nothing that shows Brewer had involvement in the statue.
Personally (and I may get heat for this) as horrible as this tragedy was, I don't agree that a statue was warrented. Yes I feel for the family. And yes it was a cruel murder. But lets face it, she was a child who happened to be in the wrong place at the right time, for nothing more than having an intrest in politics. It is indeed ironic she was born on another day that will live in the heart and souls of most Americans. But again, to me, this does not justify a statue in her honor. I think that should be for those any age who have done something nobel and served our fellow Americans, and humankind.
". . . as horrible as this tragedy was, I don't agree that a statue was warrented." I agree.
It happens more often than it should.