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Originally posted by Reds6
Discrimination is Discrimnation. I have friends that we couldn't find and up until Sunday night I thought they were dead. So I have been greatly affected by this. But it saddens me to hear of young Muslim and Arab children afraid to go outside and go to school. We all scream about racial profiling when it comes to us, but condone it on others. Lets not forget the struggles that our people went through not to long ago. There was a time that if a black man looked at a white woman to long, this would cause and up roar and many black did not feel safe to come out of their homes and were threatned. When Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds of people including children in Oklahoma, whites didn't fear their lives, white children didn't feel unsafe. People weren't saying we need to profile whites in America.
Now do I think we need to be more aware as Americans yes. We need to tighten up our security in this country. I live 5 minutes from Andrews Air Force base, where the President always lands and I was very afraid to be that close on Tuesday and still a little nervous. Do I think immigration laws should be tighter yes. Keep in mind the vast majority of the people involved in this act were in this country illegally. Do I think we need to bomb the heck out of Afghanistan(SP) and whoever is responsible hell yes!
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I couldn't agree more with this post. I was beginning to think that everyone on this message board were raging xenophobes.
Someone mentioned that it seems like even the noble ones have ties to terrorist. Well, let's be honest there are a lot of blacks who have ties to criminals. Whether that person is a friend or a relative or a friend of a friend and so on and so and. All that to say don't be quick to judge someone because of what the media says is tie to a terrorist. You aren't evil just because your acquaintance from high school was arrested.