Reply #100: This is so strange...

[AbbyR]

I remember after 9/11, the first thing I did was call my college-age daughter and ask her to check on three of her friends, one from Pakistan and two from Iran, to see if they were safe. My first thought was "Some redneck idiot is going to shoot them." I knew the friends and was concerned - nice kids and they were fine, by the way.

On the other hand, if I were to get on a plane with men appearing to be Middle Eastern, I would be nervous. Nervous enough to get off the plane? No. And why wouldn't I be nervous if someone who looks like Timothy McVeigh (sp?) got on board? Racism? I hope not, but I really don't know.

I have white people I love and white people who drive me nuts. Same with black people and kids and dogs (Lord deliver me from a Peke). So what does that make me? I hope it makes me human and trying, every day, to do better.