i'm scared

About a month ago, three mean brutally beat an undocumented immigrant in Wright City, about 40 miles from where i'm sitting right now. They yelled "immigration enforcement" as they broke into his trailer and police are saying that it was likely a hate crime... uh, likely?

Top Three Reasons Why I'm Scared:

• This is the second "lynching" I've heard about in the past week. (I wrote about the other one a previous post.)

• I just found out about this yesterday when one of my students brought in a article about it. Where was the outcry!? How did a month go by without ongoing commentary?
  

• One of my other students said proudly, "yeah! my friend was there!" Yes, proudly.