(0 comments)So, a random brown person walks through an angry white mob near ground zero — guess what happens…
This:
Who was this scary Muslim interloper? A non-Muslim union carpenter, who works at Ground Zero:
A man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a coward and tries to fight him. The tall man who I think was one of the organizers tried to get between the two men. Later I caught up with the man who’s name is Kenny. He is a Union carpenter who works at Ground Zero. We discussed what a scary moment that was for him.Will someone tell me when it’s time to give up hope on my fellow man? My ex says it was years ago…
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It didn't look like there were more than a couple of hundred people there. In a city like NYC -- with all the crazies there -- a crowd this small shows that most of the people of Manahattan understand and respect the difference between everyday Muslims and the fundamentalist whackos that brought down the towers. don't lose your faith in humankind, just because a very vocal minority are out there acting like the ignorant bigots that they are.
methinks you underestimate the quiet xenophobia at work here. sure, the crazies — the ones you can see — are always a pretty small group. but what about these fuckheads:
"New York voters oppose by a nearly 2-to-1 margin plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, according to a new Siena Research Institute poll released Wednesday." http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/18/poll-new…
I've seen polls that show while a large majority of New York state voters oppose the Burlington Coat Factory Community Center, a very slim majority of NYC voters oppose it and when it's just Manhattan voters, majorities actually support the center. All irrelevant to me though since this is a pretty clear case of religious freedom and apparently a lot of Americas don't understand a basic tenet of their nation's founding. Much of this is the bigotry and xenophobia one glimpses in that video and on cable news, but I would wager a lot of it is also just pure ignorance. I heard a caller to an NPR show from Friday implying he thought the "Mosque" was going to be built on the actual site of the WTC (well done, Fox News), instead of cubbyholed two blocks away surrounded by taller buildings. Also, I suspect some ignorance about lower Manhattan and how tight and dense building construction is in that off-the-grid part of the city.
Regarding hope for humanity, etc. — I tend to think of the whole of human history as a fight by a few against a tidal wave of stupid, selfish, and lazy. We just keep locking arms and pushing back and slowly make progress.
I would of felt like a dumbass!