dave

Come the hell on. Open your eyes.

I live in Northern Virginia, which is pretty much the melting pot of the east coast. Everyone lives here, because it's the fasting growing area in the US, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. I see it in people here. I see it in people in Maryland.

It's part of the way people are raised. They can't control it, but it's there.

When the planes hit the towers, what did you think?

Well, I work with professionals - computer programmers, Ivy League-educated managers - and I saw it there. Everyone (and I do mean <b>everyone</b>) assumed it was Arabs. Now, they were correct. But that doesn't matter. The assumption is what's important. No one was thinking "a bunch of white guys hijacked some planes and flew them into some buildings". No one was attacking Christians the night of and day after the attacks, but some Muslim, Hindu and Sikh dudes were getting beaten up. Why? Because they're brown.

Nevermind that there are terrorist organizations too - the predominant sentiment was that Arabs had hijacked planes and flew them into the World Trade Center.

Yeah, must be a Southern thing. Quit kidding yourself.