Madness at Virginia Tech

Doing nothing about the kid behind the sunglasses

NIKKI GIOVANNI, a Virginia Tech English professor, is an African-American poetess of the Maya Angelou school. At a memorial service after the slaughter of 32 people, she compared the shootings to a “baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory,” and to a baby dying in Appalachia when his house is “run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized.”