Although I am deeply saddened by all the people who died today, by far the saddest thing I have seen all day is the fact that the young people, the people who are going to run this country one day, are so incredibly disturbed and prejudiced. Today the United States of America and its people lost an incredible amount of respect in my eyes, and hopefully in the eyes of many other intelligent people who actually think before they speak. I watched as national news agencies jumped to conclusions by stating that this was the fault of the Arab world although there was absolutely no evidence to solidify that thought. It was said because that is what the American public wanted to hear. The American people need to hate, it was the Soviet Union, now it will be the Arab world. As I listened to the reports in class today I heard 'Fuck those dark-skinned terrorists' or 'This is all the Muslims' fault'. Now allow me to draw a couple comparisons that may hit you closer to home...keep in mind I absolutely DO NOT BELIEVE OR CONDONE ANY OF THESE, I am simply drawing a comparison so people will understand what they were saying. If someone was to hypothetically say, and again I mean no offense 'We should hang all those dirty N*ggers, they are dogs' or 'I wish Hitler would have finished off those Jews, let them fry like they should'. If someone, again hypthetically said that you would be apalled, and, if you were like me would knock the person out on the spot. If thats so offensive, why is everyone doing the very same thing to the Arab people. These attitudes that we are seeing here and I'm sure in all of your communities are the reason why what happened today happened. If I were to treat an African-American, a Native-American, a Hispanic-American, an Asian-American, a catholic, a protestant, a jew, or any other group the way I am seeing Arabs being treated right here, not only would I be sued, that group would have revenge on me for certain. So why in holy Hell are we saying this about Arabs???
There are nearly a billion arabs in this world, and you just disgraced all of them in the worst way because of the actions of a couple thousand or so. You are so very offended by children celebrating the death of Americans, but how would you react if someone stole your homeland, killed your brothers, and spit on your grave by saying 'they should all be exterminated' or 'those towelheads should be banned from the country.' Many of your minds are so incredibly closed already, but if you could just think about what you are saying. This is 2001, a time when this prejudice is supposedly gone, so why is this happening?? The flames from the buildings will be put out, the wounds of the injured will heal, but unless everyone changes these hateful disgusting thoughts now, they will never be extinguished.
(Again I meant none of the racist comments I expressed and I do not condone any of them, I was simply drawing a comparison.)
