This opinion piece was published in the Colorado University school paper this past Monday, just two days before the 66th anniversary of FDR's Executive Order mandating the internment of Japanese-Americans across the country.
This week the screen adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake is released on DVD. The novel and film follow Gogol Ganguli, the American born son of Indian immigrants as he struggles with and rejects his Indian culture.
Shortly after yesterday's tragedy made its way into the U.S. media, reports that the shooter appeared to be Asian appeared on television and online. Before authorities identified the man as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean national and English major at Virginia Tech, several news outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times (with a link from Drudge) and The Times of London reported that a suspect was Chinese.
Readers will note that both of the articles linked above now reflect the correct shooter. The papers apparently have used the same URL for their online story on the shooting, continually editing it. In this case, the Times has removed any mention of its previous statement regarding a Chinese suspect. (I'm trusting Josie Liu that the page did reflect this mistaken information before.) On the other hand, the Sun-Times includes the following statement in it's current story:
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