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ursamajorwhat's made me angry today:
1. the events of tuesday
2. the people jumping to blame someone, anyone without directing the blame where it belongs: the terrorists.
3. the racist backlash against AMERICANS who happen to have the wrong color skin and hair; who aren't even the same ETHNICITY; and even if they were that DOESN'T MAKE THEM GUILTY. hate calls, letters, windows being smashed at arab-american organizations. mosques being set afire and bombed. people trying to RUN arab-americans over. sikhs being jumped in the street because people are too ignorant and volatile to distinguish them from the terrorists. people afraid to go outside because they're wearing the wrong clothing, have the wrong skin color.
CNN mentions the texas mosque bombings, the sikh who got jumped in Oklahoma, the "Americans" with CONFEDERATE flags in illinois who were marching towards a mosque, the blood being poured (LITERALLY) on the floors of an arab-american community center in san francisco, san francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, my HOME.
and what little police protection has been established ... what happens when they go away? Not that I think police protection is the answer, either; the only REAL answer is education ...
(two fire engines just raced by, american flags streaming out the back, in the direction of the mosque two blocks away. i hope to god this is not where they're going, that they're responding to a stupid harvard school of public health student who burnt their popcorn ... please)
what an ugly combination fear, ignorance and stubbornness are.
bedtime.
1. the events of tuesday
2. the people jumping to blame someone, anyone without directing the blame where it belongs: the terrorists.
3. the racist backlash against AMERICANS who happen to have the wrong color skin and hair; who aren't even the same ETHNICITY; and even if they were that DOESN'T MAKE THEM GUILTY. hate calls, letters, windows being smashed at arab-american organizations. mosques being set afire and bombed. people trying to RUN arab-americans over. sikhs being jumped in the street because people are too ignorant and volatile to distinguish them from the terrorists. people afraid to go outside because they're wearing the wrong clothing, have the wrong skin color.
CNN mentions the texas mosque bombings, the sikh who got jumped in Oklahoma, the "Americans" with CONFEDERATE flags in illinois who were marching towards a mosque, the blood being poured (LITERALLY) on the floors of an arab-american community center in san francisco, san francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, my HOME.
and what little police protection has been established ... what happens when they go away? Not that I think police protection is the answer, either; the only REAL answer is education ...
(two fire engines just raced by, american flags streaming out the back, in the direction of the mosque two blocks away. i hope to god this is not where they're going, that they're responding to a stupid harvard school of public health student who burnt their popcorn ... please)
what an ugly combination fear, ignorance and stubbornness are.
bedtime.
