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  • On Sept. 11 anniversary, let's not let fear cripple us (Barf Alert!!!)

    09/11/2004 5:04:01 PM PDT · by SittinYonder · 64 replies · 4,130+ views
    The Athens Banner-Herald ^ | 9/11/04 | By Aladdin Elaasar
    The anniversary of Sept. 11 will be painful for Arab and Muslim-Americans - as it will be for all Americans. After the terrorist strikes, Arab and Muslim-Americans became targets for random hate and violence. They became the latest ethnic group to be singled out in an American time of crisis. In the 1850s, Irish immigrants were persecuted. During World War I, German immigrants were suspect. During World War II, Americans of Japanese backgrounds bore the brunt of that conflict. America's legacy of nativism - the intense opposition to an internal minority because of its supposed foreign connections - reared its...
  • Standing for Peace (Barf alert!)

    09/11/2004 4:52:30 PM PDT · by SittinYonder · 20 replies · 490+ views
    The Athens Banner-Herald ^ | 9/11/04 | By Julie Phillips
    It's late on a Tuesday afternoon in downtown Athens, the heat of summer temporarily lifted by a blustery wind as overhead, clouds gather and a crack of thunder splits the air. In front of the Arch on the University of Georgia's North Campus, a steady roar of cars and buses mixes with the chatter of students bustling by. Meanwhile, on city streets in other parts of the world, the thunderous explosion of bombs rips through the lives of people going about their daily lives, followed by the chaos of screams and wails, horror and pain. Amid all this noise, it...