Good question - Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?

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9. Yep, it was all black folks

So no one really cares.

I can back that up.

On Monday morning, in my neighborhood a man shot and killed his wife and stepdaughter and shot at his son as he tried to run away. Our neighborhood is majority white but this family is black. Although there was some discussion on our neighborhood Yahoo list as the tragedy unfolded, not a single message was posted after it was known who the family was. No messages like, "I can't understand this, they were a nice family." Nada, nothing. I can imagine if the family was white and people knew them, the list would be abuzz with surprise, conjecture and memories of the family. But as soon as news came out, who the family was . . . nothing. No rehashing of the tragedy. No discussion of recently talking with the family members. Crickets.

Maybe people are shocked that it happened and are speechless. I'll give them that.