From: "Keilonne O'Brien" <keilonne-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: (none) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:11:21 -0400 In reply to Miriam's sentiments I too am worried about the reaction Arab nations and Arab people in the US will receive in light of this morning's attacks. The absolute worst thing NBC could have done was to show footage of Palestinians in the Middle East jumping and smiling exuberantly in the streets. Sure at the same time they were saying that there is no apparent tie to any particular organization or group of people but a picture is worth a thousand words and I just know that the images of Palestinian children waving their flag and other showing peace signs will create in the American psyche a target for which retaliation for this morning's catastrophe can be directed. Justice is justice but to condemn an entire group for the actions of a few is always wrong. I can only hope that no one in the media is intentionally trying to create that fiend towards whom America can direct its anger. <If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) So many things to say!!! Keilonne ....................................................................... From: mschacht-AT-mail.utexas.edu Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Re: (none) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:06:28 -0700 The sentiments expressed on the bus this morning as I rode in to work (in Austin, Texas) were frightening. In conversations, people were calling for "another Hiroshima" against the Palestinians, and for all kinds of retributive attacks. This is no surprise, I suppose, as terrorist attacks of all kinds are here immediately supposed to be Arabic or Islamic in origin (remember Oklahoma City?), but nonetheless I find myself preoccupied, in the aftermath of these attacks, not only with the lives that were lost but with what this is going to mean for the safety of people in this country and in other countries who are presumed to be connected to these attacks because they appear to be Arab and/or Muslim. I would like to be able to hope that I am just being paranoid. Miriam -------- Original Message -------- >From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org> >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:01:15 -0400 >Subject: (none) > >Has anyone seen the news yet? > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ____________________________________________________________________ Check your SchoolEmail at http://www.CampusI.com Find the LOWEST PRICES on books at http://www.campusi.com/BookFind ! --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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