8/5/13: This day last year, a white supremacist killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. Two days after the event, I noted that the major news networks (not including CNN) had dedicated scant coverage to the shooting compared to Aurora, leaving it "destined to disappear into the realm of the nothing-to-be-done, nothing-to-be-discussed."
BuzzFeed's Jessica Testa returns to the story one year later and finds that Oak Creek has all but disappeared from the American register of national tragedies: "I’ll meet people in Milwaukee, and I’ll mention ‘Aug. 5.’ And they’ll say, ‘What happened on Aug. 5?’” Rahul Dubey, the godson of temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, who died that day, tells Testa.
Testa makes only the most gentle, indirect suggestion of racism: "There’s an element of foreignness," she writes. Let's be blunt: It's more than that. If the shooting took place at a white church and the shooter were a Sikh, we'd still be talking about this story, even on non-anniversary days.