Cho and Andrew Cunanan

This is part of Jeff Yang's essay in salon.com:

"Most of the perpetrators of mass school killings have been white," said Paul Niwa, a journalism professor at Emerson College. "After those shootings, do you think white people felt guilty that the shooter was white? Do you think white people felt that since the shooter was white, that the shooter would give society a bad impression of whites? A shooter can be white and nobody thinks that race played a part in the crime. But when someone nonwhite commits a crime, this society makes the person's race partially at fault."

Reading these comments, I found myself caught in a dilemma. I want to think that race is not a factor in the toxic mix of rage and psychological disturbance that has occasionally discharged as this kind of violence. And, certainly, in most cases it isn't: Teenage angst is colorblind, and the triggers for crimes like these have included parental abuse, schoolyard persecution, romantic obsession -- phenomena that exist beyond culture or ethnicity.

But professor Niwa is right: When race enters the equation -- when the perpetrator of a crime of this type is black, like "Beltway Snipers" John Allen Muhammad and his ward Lee Boyd Malvo, or Asian, like Cho -- it rises to the surface and stays there, prompting inevitable discussions about whether "black rage" or "immigrant alienation" were somehow to blame; whether in some fundamental fashion, color of skin, shape of eye, or nation of origin lie at the seething, secret heart of such tragedies.

And then I remembered Andrew Cunanan. Turned out there were others who made the crazy connection. One Two: Then I thought about the gunman. The first thing that stood out at me was the Asian description. What’s this going to do to the national perspective of Asians? Nearly every time I’ve seen an Asian in the news — it’s been attached to something bad. The Asian sniper in the Midwest. Andrew cunanan (aka the guy that shot G. Versace). Now this one. Asian-American male stereotype beware. Hell, look at William Hung. No wait, don’t.
A certain rachel in an answer to a blog made the mistake of identifying Cunanan as a white male. Ha ha ha.

Perhaps we should compile a list of spree killings, mass killings, and school shooting done by white males.

I’ll start it, and others can add.

Andrew Cunanan was a spree killer who killed 5 people.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were responsible for Columbine.

Andrew Kehoe who blew up a school full of kids in the 20s.

Duane R. Morrison who broke into a school and molested several women, and subsequently killed one of the women.

Kip Kinkel in Oregon was a school shooter.

If you want to find more school shooters, wikipedia has several names; the vast majority of them are male and white.

Another reactor to a blog named frank had this to say about Cho:
Luckily he has none of the cuteness factor that Andrew Cunanan did.
Should Pinoys be glad of that? That our serial killers are guwapo?
And then Yahoo recently deleted a question on Cho re: his sexuality. Since it had been proven that Cho had no girlfriend, does that mean that he's gay like Cunanan?
And then there's Karmela Johnson who wrote:
I want to reach out now to my Korean-American brethren and tell you that even though there will be some idiots out there who will blame you, the rest of us don’t feel this way. The monster that is Cho Seung-Hui was not your fault, just as Andrew Cunanan wasn’t the collective fault of Filipino-Americans.