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September 12, 2003
America Makes You Stupid AgainA South Asian friend of mine was at a local coffeeshop yesterday, while all the hoopla commemorating the September 11 bombings was taking place. Some random, middle-aged white guy walked up to him, huffing belligerantly. My friend looked up from his newspaper. "It's sure hard to commemorate September 11 with you people around," the guy snarled at this perfectly innocent brown-skinned man whose country wasn't even linked by George Bush, Jr.'s vivid imagination to those terrorist acts. A man of great generosity, my friend merely said, when he told the story, that he thought the better part of valor was leaving quietly, since such incidents can escalate quickly into violence. "It must be hard," he reflected, "to be so angry." Posted by kalital at September 12, 2003 9:00 PM Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsPost a comment |
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