Response to Gawker article on Boston Muslims caught in reprisal violence after Marathon Bombing

http://gawker.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-muslim-in-boston-right-n-478104110

Crimes of reprisal committed against the weak and vulnerable of our society, by cowards. Lets not forget the threat being a Brown person in America carries of random violent crime. Of being wrongly and falsely implicated in crime because of skin tone, or spiritual beliefs. When Brown people cease to be scape-goats, we will sleep easy.

However, the other is always feared, and fear manifests itself with violence. Until we unify as a species, we're going to always fear one another.

Preface: My thoughts are with all victims of the Boston bombings, as well as victims of yet another media circus and subsequent misplaced patriotism cum violence. Are you really a patriot for punching an unarmed Brown woman holding a child?

Answer: No, you're a criminal. Fit for jail, unfit for society.

Reading about acts of violence committed against mothers holding less than year old children ironically (the article reads: She dropped her child when a man punched her and screamed something about Muslims), and perhaps counter-intuitively, makes me violently angry.

When will people learn that just because a terror crime has been committed, its NOT time for total war against anyone of your feared race of the minute?

Answer: Likely never. It's part of the human condition. Even if race becomes desensitized, there will always be new frontiers for human stupidity to flourish. When there are no more races to fear, there will be newly invented distinguishing characteristics to apply said irrationalities to. The solution? Stop clinging to niches and subcultures to the point of denying commonality between men.

To anyone claiming / believing racism doesn't exist... OR doesn't affect us in Central Ohio, as well as every city on the planet... You are living in a privilege-laden dream world. And your world views are wildly inaccurate. You deserve little responsibility, and you're worse than an uninformed child.

"Racism is inherent in all forms of society."

Yo, the title of this post comes from an exerpt of a comment on a youtube video I found just now. Before I go on I need to touch on the recent spat of shootings we've experienced lately as a country. First the shooting at the dark knight premier. then the shooting at the sikh temple. and now another shooting of a black man by his neighbor. these incidents are cropping up and it just goes to show how prevalent the problem really is. my thoughts are with all the victims, their families friends and communities. this quote seemed like it struck a chord with me. I don't believe that Racism is an Inherent part of all forms of society. There is nothing inherent about it. To attribute falsities to a genus of the species, to take a group of assumptions and say, these falsities are true. I feel there is a point of enlightenment touching the world, all people are slowly realizing the truth, the falsehood of assumption, and the reality of sameness in the world. We are a different looking species, but we are the same as well. - Shawn.Fresh

ron paul

been sein alot bout this guy. he's always painted as the common sense candidate, that everyone else's spend crazy... but im nkt convinced. im not convinced he'd make a good president. his absolute hatred for foreign policy for instance... we RELY on immigrant labor & innovation, take that away and we have NO edge in the world.

what id like to see

an end to issues with names, end to assumptions bout who i am where im from what i know, do, think, believe, eat, pray to, have lived through, the experiences of my parents.

additionally, no assumptions of my act, no promotion of my race, etc. im a human being.

stop asking where parents r from.

gurudwara nonsense

cut my hair years ago. parents insinuate cowardice, throw conversionary bastards my way @ gurudwara to talk me into regrowing hair... insanity. heh.

airport check paranoia

been years since 9/11, people still take issue to brown air transit, we're pulled.aside n searched. still not as bad as the london tube issues where i was pulled over for black backpack. bigotrys a great word to have picked up in terms of addressing this shit.

name issues

happens all the time. people ask name, or i say, and they say Sandy? i say no, think of beach acronyms, sand on the beach & the oceans deep. sand - deep. they get it eventually. or occasionally, they dont. usually make a joke bout it after to brush it off.