After too much time trying to convince my girlfriend about how the movies i like aren't actually that bad, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy or equally nerdy movies, i got her to watch the Lost television series on netflix. Although i was trying to focus on the show i was really thinking about what the hell i was going to write about in this blog that's due in approximately one hour from now for my Comp 2 class. *enter Sawyer,* one of the most interesting character in my opinion in the Lost series. If you know anything about Lost, you'd know that Sawyer doesn't actually use anyone's name at all through out the series but instead calls them by what they look like, basically judges the book by its cover. Well, in the episode i was watching Sawyer gets into a fight with Sayid, an Israeli soldier, and during the fight he called him a terrorist which perfectly relates to today and the perspective of my community and how i believe you shouldn't have the right to call some one out on the basis of what they look like.
I don't remember much on September 11. I wouldn't of been able to tell you what grade i was in when it happened, i just trust my classmates when they said it was 3rd grade. People can tell you "yeah at the time i was eating a ham sandwich when i heard it on the news" when chances are i was playing with blocks, during school, without ever knowing what was happening, why it was happening, or who caused it.
A few years of schooling later you learn things. About terrorist groups, who led them, what purpose they had, ect. Im not really good with history so ill probably get this wrong, but i think there was a time during the korean war when they were separating the asian from the rest of the population in America because of fear of communism, spies and so forth. Im not saying it got that bad here, but alot of people were afraid and judged people who looked like they were from the middle east like they were terrorist. which at the time i think was a reasonable fear, for atleast awhile.
I live in Oostburg, a small town in WI, very religious. When a group of people decided that they wanted to build a muslim church close to the community, people were upset and this was only last year. pitiful. When this church needed to go to the town board in order to gain documentation to have the right to use the building as a mosque the Oostburg community showed up. The community didn't use any reasoning for why the building couldn't be used for the way it is now, they could only say they are Muslim, they could kill us. It was all fear and ignorance, i thought that saying "don't judge a book by its cover" was meant for children. Its time to grow up, and i hope people have
