給自己一個好心情

We are Virginia Tech

We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. WE are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.

We are Virginia Tech.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech.

We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib and the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are Virginia Tech.

The Hokier Nation embraces our own and reaches our open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imagination and the possibility. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness.

We are the Hokies.

We will prevail,

We will prevail,

we will prevail.

We are Virginia Tech.

兇手的姐姐在慘案後代表家族發表了一份聲明, 誠心向死者, 向死者親友, 向美國社會, 向全世界道歉祈求原諒, 美國當地媒體則以a heartbroken statement來報導這篇聲明。VT在4/21於校園立起三十三座石碑以紀念死去旳受害者, 其中一塊是給兇手的, 對死者一視同仁。在兇手的石碑上有人留言道, "I am so sorry that you could find no help or comfort." 這塊石頭後來被人偷走了, 可想而知一定很多人對兇手懷抱恨意, 但大部份人對VT成熟而富同情心的做法, 是給予肯定的。

這幾天回頭看了一些台灣媒體對這個事件的報導, 居然發現有一大部份都是在強調可能引發反亞風暴, 對在美的亞裔人士打預防針提出警告, 報導留學生因擔心反亞而延遲赴美, 連Prof. Nikki Giovanni的演說都被解讀成為避免族群分裂而特意起用一位黑人女性教授......唉! 我相信反亞情緒多少會有的, 但不會是主流的情況, 以族裔的角度來探討這件事, 台灣媒體就像井底之蛙, 未免也太小看美國這個寬大包容的社會了。

願所有死去的人安息。