I listened to Muhammad's story on the topic of 9/11. Muhammad is Muslim, and it seems a lot of the Muslim community was interviewed about their stories on this website. Muhammad was saying that after 9/11 happened his boss had been talking about how his supposed “cousins” blew up the world trade center. Whenever he actually went into work his boss took him to the back to “check him for bombs” and his boss kept laughing like it was a funny joke.
Something like that happening isn’t funny at all. It was a very serious situation for the United States and it wasn’t something to joke about. The fact that someone is the same race as the people who did blow up the world trade center does not mean they are related, or that Muhammad feels the same way that the terrorists did. I agree with Muhammad; I would feel very offended and mad about my boss saying those types of things. Personally I would probably quit.
I also listened to Anjum Mir’s story on 9/11. She focused on how scared she was about the whole situation, and she was scared for the Muslim population in America. She felt sad for the people that were involved in 9/11, and she was scared that she would be in a building that would be bombed. Her last sentence in her story really stood out to me, “And there was this impending sort of doom for what’s going to happen to the Muslim community.”
If I was a Muslim female after 9/11 I would probably feel the same way as Anjum. I would be scared that people would view me in a really negative light and that there would possibly be restrictions for Muslim people after the whole 9/11 situation (I don’t know if there were restrictions, but there would still be a lot of judgment from other people who aren’t Muslim). I think for that period of time, a lot of people didn’t feel safe anywhere they went. Maybe people still have this problem today, but I feel like that the United States has gotten a little smarter with the second amendment rights, and a lot more people carry a weapon with them than before 9/11 occurred. Does this mean that we are safer? Probably not, this could even be worse to have an idiot own a gun who doesn’t know how to use it in the right situation, but hopefully we have people that can protect us that use smart decisions with owning and concealing a gun.
I didn’t have time to watch the movie, but I can see a pattern in all of the things we have read and watched today. The test was based on how we feel about different races, and it was quite interesting. I think we lean more towards our own race, but I don’t have a problem or feel uncomfortable around different races per say. I only watched 9/11 videos because it was easier to relate to than Pearl Harbor. The 9/11 videos only told stories of all of these Muslim men and women, and how they felt about the impact that 9/11 had on their lives afterwards. This is another racial topic as well. And lastly, Ms. Reeves summarized the video in class. The video is suppose to be about how a school teacher separated her students by eye color and put them in different parts of her classroom after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. Surprise surprise! Another racial situation although this one focuses on segregation.
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