This is a short one, but I feel this needs to get out.
There is an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune today about an incident during the Minnesota-Seattle football game in Minneapolis, MN. It is chilling and a harbinger of things to come.
My run-in with hate speech at a Minnesota Vikings game.
If you look at the byline, you will find that the writer is not Pakistani, Afghani, Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian or from any Middle Eastern country.
He is Indian. He was chosen because he looks like “one of them”. A Indian friend of mine after 9/11 almost got into a worse scrape. The guy asked, “Are you for Osama?” My friend calmly said no. He told him he was Indian. That guy was ready to beat on my friend.
Now, I know of quite a few Minnesotans that are racist and angry ones at that, but overall this is not known as a hotbed of racial hatred. If it is happening here, it is happening everywhere. I know there have been several incidents out there that have been as bad or worse already. I am saying that this is going to get worse before it gets better. We need to make sure that this disease doesn’t spread past 2016.
“We must all hang together or we will all hang separately.”