Joe speaks out

[jfkbengals]

(05-30-2020, 02:34 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: You have a point. Remember when 9-11 happened? It was almost like, for a short time, there was no black, white, asian, hispanic thing going on. It was as if we were all Americans. It was brief, but it was cool.

Not true at all.  There was a TON of racism as a result of it.  I'm a guy of mostly European descent, but have Middle Eastern heritage from my grandmother, and I do have some of the physical features as a result.  I personally had at least a dozen incidents of racist ass wipes that I didn't know at all accuse me of being a terrorist or sympathizer because of my features, sometimes even physically stopping me in public to ask if I had ever been to the mid-east.  As I was in the restaurant business at the time, I got to witness a number of incidents of people of Middle Eastern, Indian, or Pakistani/Afghani descent minding their business get accosted and falsely accused of things.  I have to admit that I would get disappointed when they left on their own when they were kicked out, because I preferred the cops doing it.  By the way, this wasn't in a rough and tumble establishment.  Rather this was a family restaurant.