To: rocksblues
After some months, though, she moved to Massachusetts. One day, she called me, and we talked again about her hijab. This time she talked about the discomfort and sometimes even hostility that people seemed to feel when they met her and saw how she was dressed. "They try to hide it, but it's obvious," she said. She said that although real estate agents were positive over the phone, no one would rent her an apartment once they saw her in person. She explained that a woman from the student housing office had had the audacity to explain to her the way toilets are flushed, "As if my hijab was an anti-intelligence sign," she said. "I spent two days crying." It seems to me that racism is at its worst in the "enlightened" blue states.
39 posted on
06/08/2008 12:48:31 PM PDT by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: AlaskaErik
They try to hide it, but it's obvious...People try to make her feel as comfortable as possible, and this is the thanks they get...
64 posted on
06/08/2008 6:34:29 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(Simple-minded conservative...)
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