Important or Unimportant Tragedy?

Today I’m gonna vent a little bit and pray that I don’t sound bitter and come across as judgmental. This morning in listening for the traffic report as I sat on Bandara with the steady red glow of break lights in front of me as far as I could see, the “teaser” for a big story here in San Antonio was “A Former MacArthur football player killed”. When the story came on, the reporter focused on the former MacArthur football connection as if that made it more of a tragedy. Now I will be the first to tell you that yes it is a tragedy, but what makes any more tragic that the homeless person that was killed last week? We tend to esteem certain social/cultural statuses more than others as if by identifying with them we become more significant. It seems as if we are so focused on ourselves and setting ourselves apart in our search for meaning in this world that deep down we don’t really care about anybody else but ourselves. There are fires out of control in San Diego were thousands of homes have been destroyed, so what do we report on, not the need of the people who don’t have a friggin home to sleep in but the possibility we can have a fire here in San Antonio as if we want to have a tragedy so that we can be “front page material”!!! Christ said unto the least of these, you do unto me.