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Arab Reality Check (12/01)
Do Arab Americans really deserve being bashed about as they are today? It’s a sorry sight: pushed off airlines because other passengers are frightened by our looks. Our scarves yanked off us, our children bullied, our people blamed for heinous crimes, insulted, eyed with suspicion. Customers at our stores gone, our mosques firebombed, threats left on phone machines, and hate words sprayed on our cars and shops.
It’s ugly. Shocking. Frightening. No, we don’t deserve this. But then, nobody deserves it. There is plenty of racial hatred in this land – against Asians, Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics. At long last, welcome to the Arabs, they say.