Posted by your crazy Uncle Cephus at host117.redriverok.com on September 11, 2001 at 19:06:21:
In Reply to: Re: I'm disgusted... posted by monty on September 11, 2001 at 18:50:11:
: The racism thing is unacceptable, and is what terrifies me most.
: I live in the UK. In the pub tonight, somebody I consider a friend said that she wouldn't feel safe around anyone who isn't white tomorrow. I have to remind you that the UK was not affected by todays events, and is, in the minds of our military inteligence at least, at no risk of any terrorist attacks. The fact that people can now turn on everybody who isn't white, on the premise that they may be plotting against them disgusts me even more thananything which has happend today, and strikes me as similar to events which occurred in Germany in 1945.
: I don't agree with killing inocent civilians, or with violence in any form (odd, bearing in mind I'm joining the army, but hey) but turning on ethnic minorities, many of whom are simply trying tio escape wars in their own countries won't help anyone, won't bring back anyone, and is absolutely pointless.
It's like I said when talking to some ppl I know, they were going on about killing all the Arabs. I said that it's not right to blame the actions of a small group of ppl on the whole race. They kept talking about how "we don't know the good from the bad." I also said, that if we were to do that, then we should still be killing the Japanese for bombing Pearl Harbor. They went on to say that "we should, because the Japanese were still rude to Americans." I said that it's because we dropped the bomb on them killing everyone, men, women and children not involved in the war, so they feel about us like they were feeling about the Arabs today and will feel for the rest of their lives. It made me sick to know these ppl today, ppl I consider friends. If this were true, if we should kill all the Arabs, then I should feel the same way about everybody here in America, because I'm Native American. I should hate all the white ppl, Europeans, Spainard, Vikings, etc, etc, but I don't. I don't feel that way at all. To throw blame on an entire race for the actions of a few ppl, not knowing if they even had anything to do with it, is the kind of ignorance I despise in the world today.
CS