Gilly Bean
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I live in a college town. My husband works for the college, and many of my friends attend it.
In the last few years, we hve had a large in flux of middle eastern students.
Yesterday, when the first reports came in, a single class sat in stunned silence.
One student, who was a middle easterner (from what country, I do not know, they did not say), jumped up, out of his seat, and started shouting with glee.
He was jumping up and down. Much like in the video from West Bank. He was happy. He kept saying it was about time.
Later, in a dorm that houses most of the middle easterners from CMU, the police had to be called in, because fights were starting.
The students in those dorms were celebrating as well.
When I heard about it a little bit ago, I was enraged. These students came here, choosing America, to learn. To be nurtured, and to grow. Some, if not most, were likely raised here. Many have probably never stepped foot in thier 'home' country.
And they cheered at the loss of the country they wish to call thier own.
Am I wrong in being angry at people who live in my town? Who go to the same stores to shop. Who go to the same reasturants to eat?
I am not prejudice. I never have been. But that made me sick.
As sick as I was to hear that people of eastern ethinticity were being attacked for no reason.
The one thing that keeps coming to mind, that I would want to have said to those people celebrating right here in my town, was that this was thier country too. That this is thier town, thier state, thier laws, thier people.
In the last few years, we hve had a large in flux of middle eastern students.
Yesterday, when the first reports came in, a single class sat in stunned silence.
One student, who was a middle easterner (from what country, I do not know, they did not say), jumped up, out of his seat, and started shouting with glee.
He was jumping up and down. Much like in the video from West Bank. He was happy. He kept saying it was about time.
Later, in a dorm that houses most of the middle easterners from CMU, the police had to be called in, because fights were starting.
The students in those dorms were celebrating as well.
When I heard about it a little bit ago, I was enraged. These students came here, choosing America, to learn. To be nurtured, and to grow. Some, if not most, were likely raised here. Many have probably never stepped foot in thier 'home' country.
And they cheered at the loss of the country they wish to call thier own.
Am I wrong in being angry at people who live in my town? Who go to the same stores to shop. Who go to the same reasturants to eat?
I am not prejudice. I never have been. But that made me sick.
As sick as I was to hear that people of eastern ethinticity were being attacked for no reason.
The one thing that keeps coming to mind, that I would want to have said to those people celebrating right here in my town, was that this was thier country too. That this is thier town, thier state, thier laws, thier people.
