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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Which is also true.
I think it's sad that we can't even, as ASTalumna06 said, make an observation without fear of how that observation may be perceived.
For what it's worth, a fb friend of mine mentioned it in one of his status messages, and it concerned him because he is also a young professor of color.
See, when you're a minority, you think about these things. When you're not, you usually don't have to, so you don't.
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I care about this topic for a number of reasons so I did some low level Internet research.
As with most academic departments, the biological science department is predominently white:
http://www.uah.edu/biology/faculty.html (you can click on each name to see a photo and bio)
So, it doesn't take mensa to beg the question of whether it is a coincidence that someone who opens fire at a faculty/departmental meeting shoots 6 faculty and ends up killing 3 racial and ethnic minorities on the department's faculty. We (other than PiKA2001) aren't going so far as to draw conclusions because that's what investigations are for.