Culture Of Death, Omaha Style

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The American Conservative:

Culture Of Death, Omaha Style

By Rod Dreher • January 18, 2014, 3:00 AM

 

Remember the Cursing Toddler Of Omaha? Now there’s the Dead Little Girl Of Omaha. The outraged blogger Mighty Favog, who lives there, reports on the murder of a beautiful little girl in Omaha’s ghetto. Five-year-old Payton Benson, whose mother had moved with her from Omaha to work on a nursing degree, was killed by a stray bullet fired by gangbangers in the next block. Excerpt:

 

SEE WHAT trying to better yourself gets you in the ‘hood? Your kid killed at the breakfast table by the unintended consequence of unintended consequences. That’s the underclass anticulture for you.

 

How very racist of me to mention that, despite it not being just a black thing.

 

Today, the police chief is outraged, the mayor is outraged and the whole city is outraged. We’ve been outraged before; we’ll be outraged again. We Omahans – we Americans – are goddamned good at outrage, but not so much at actually doing something about that which outrages us again and again and again and again and again.

 

We’re working on it, though. Results are preliminary, but we’re pretty sure the solution has something to do with giving teachers