Melissa, you bring up a great question about why people would act this way towards these people groups. You give some great examples by giving us 9/11, which everyone and their brother can relate to and now, more recently, the attacks at Virginia Tech.
Sadly, these people don't make it any easier on us. I remember when we had the sniper in West Virginia. Those two were a couple of crazy, NASCAR loving white guys. For some reason, I didn't hear any talks about racism with that. It is only when people of different ethnicity decide to attack us white people. I think it is unfair.
I know everyone, including me, has looked at people of Arab descent with suspicion. It definitely doesn't make it right. It just seems to be something we all do. Robin Williams makes a joke about how when people used to fly the Red Eye they would take whatever medication they had and wake up in Tokyo. Now everyone is wide awake, looking around the cabin. Looking for anyone who ordered the humus.
That's right, we have to throw racial stereotypes in there. Without those we wouldn't have anything else to go on. Just like every postal worker will shoot up some neighborhood, everyone who eats humus will slam a plane into a building. I think it is said this is our response to this
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