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I Hope They Notice
TO: Columnist Dennis Prager, Representative Virgil H. Goode Jr., and Everyone Else who has made prejudicial statements about Keith Ellison and other Muslims among us …
If you’re out there and you’re paying attention, I hope you’ll take a breath from your hateful words and read this story from the WaPo.
And after you do, I hope you’ll issue public apologies — because America and its law-abiding citizens, from every race, religion, and creed, deserve better than you’ve recently given them.
8 Responses to “I Hope They Notice”
Thanks for posting this story.
I hope they notice too, Pete Abel. This is a very heartwarming story, and timely too. The last couple of paragraphs really say it all.
The real problem is that the extremists grab all of the attention in our conflict-for-ratings mad society. Stories detailing a conference of Holocaust deniers in Iran will make more headlines, then a simple story of a great humanitarian gesture will.
But the lady from Bethesda who said we would have ME peace if these incidents were the norm was correct.
I got all tingley.
Here’s more:
Ellisons response to Goode:
The High Road…
Thanks for the heads up Pete.
From my blog:
Also- whenever there’s any criticism of American policy, a stock answer from a certain segment is sure to follow:
“If we’re so hated in the world, then why is everyone lining up to come here”?
If our high reputation is due to the fact that we embrace all creeds, races and religions- doesn’t it behoove us to live up to it?
Kim, exactly.
I forget who said this, but the words were to this effect: the way to combat those who oppose our freedoms is by increasing them, not limiting them.
Reagan’s shining city on a hill is looking markedly dingy these days, its walls besmirched by those who most would praise it.
Unfortunately I get the feeling that irony is wasted on those who live in fear, and those who would exploit it.
Virgil Goode Jr. is very representative of whats wrong in the American ultra conservative mindset. The same man who will in one breath speak of the enduring freedoms of his country, then turn around and try to deny them to a fellow countryman. Shameful and mind boggling.
Well, I’m hoping its his “macaca moment”! Who expected a political giant like George Allen to fall over a mere phrase???? Virginia is changing politically from red to at least light purple, and the Virgil Goodes of this world can be defeated by revealing their own bigotted ignorance.