The Story Of A Suicide

Last year Tyler Clementi, a gay 18 year old student at Rutgers University, jumped to his death at the George Washington Bridge. The criminal court case begins today for Dharun Ravi, Clementi's roommate, who is being tried for a series of misdeeds that led to Clementi's death, including homophobia. The full story is HERE. According to the accounts, the discrimination from Ravi and his circle seems to be both for sexual orientation and class (Clementi comes from middle-lower class while Ravi is middle upper-class). In the detailed story, Dharun Ravi seems like a boy struggling with living in an un-open home but his blithely unaware achieving Chinese-American friends and potential cohorts basically come across as wastes-of-space. I may be hard on these Chinese-Americans but these aspiring scientists and entrepreneurs will never amount to anything close to a James E. Burke or Henry Ford.