Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Leslie W. Rabine" <lrabine-AT-benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: Oklahoma Bombing


Fri. morning the L.A. Times had an article about how the local Muslim
center was being deluged with hate calls and threats, expecially against
the children.  Fri. afternoon NPR interviewed some people in Oklahoma City
about how they reacted to the news that evidence now pointed to white
supremacists.  The first guy answered that he thought it was worse than if
terrorists had done it. (interesting how definitions get formed)  The
second women kept repeating how unbelievable it was, how she couldn't
believe it and how you can't believe what you hear on the media any more
(one assumes she believed the media when they were spectulating with no
evidence that Muslim extremists were the culprits). 

On Sat, 22 Apr 1995, Bonnie Duran wrote:

> 
>  First let me say, Creator have mercy and be with the victims
> in Oklahoma City.
> 
> Im wondering: 
> 
> Will European Americans be as outraged 
> againts white racists Ideology and its material
> consequences as they would have been if this were an
> international attack by a third world group 
> or by another ethnic (albeit a darker shade) based 
> group in the US?  Will European American leaders demand
> retribution agianst white racists organizations in the US?
> 
> What effect will this event have on the "Manichean Allegory"
> that at first organized the reception of the bombing, 
> [eg; the Arabs did it!] and that so permeates 
> the mainstream interpretation of crisis in the US ?
> Will the Oklahoma bombing expand our national
>  definition of "terrorists" to include White 
> racists enacting  violence under the justification of
>  "partriotism"? 
> 
> What role do the neo-conservative ideologues media commentators
>  who promote anti-federalist sentiment play in the
> performance of this act and in its reception by the public?
> 
> The reaction to this event may be an important gauge as to who we 
> think we are and how far we have come from
> "American" as defined by a  monolithic White identity.  
> Who would want to identify with THAT now?
> 
>  What do you think and how did you feel when you heard who
> was suspected of this act ?
> 
> 
> The red cross needs donations for relief, call your
> local chapter.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bonnie
> 
> 
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