Recently I went with someone to this guy's house to watch some tapes and found myself on his computer. I was checking my emails and trying to see if my husband had contacted me through the net seeing as he lost his phone. He hadn't sent me emails, but sometimes we communicate through social networks like myspace or facebook so I proceeded to check those out as well to see if he had sent me anything. No sooner that I had logged on the dude was watching me communicate with my cousins and got pissed that I was talking to Middle Eastern people. Forget the fact I'm Arabic too, and my cousins are hard working tax-paying productive citizens who don't do anything bad, but he had to insist I was visiting with terrorists. He told me he didn't want any Arab shit on his computer and when I tried to explain what I was doing he shouted at me as if I was a dog that peed on the carpet. I abruptly logged off and left the house, next to tears because of this racist act. Here's the zinger though--the person I was with, rather than trying to console me and reassure me that this act was a rare occurrence, actually chastised me for being upset!! I was floored. It's like a big rock just came down and landed on my pride and crushed it right before my eyes. I went back home and thought about it, and called my cousin and friends to vent. After I had spilled every last thought onto the floor I realized something. Me and my associates might be Middle Eastern, which isn't the most savory group of people in this society right now, but we had something that these two people do not have--a meaningful life. When you must degrade an entire people based on zero evidence to back your claims just to take focus off your asinine actions and bad habits, you don't have much to live for now do you? Sadly so many people I meet think like this, and they publicly bash Arabs and anything related, yet their lives are so fucked up they can't manage their own vices it makes me wonder if they are jealous of Arabs because so many are far more successful than they have been, it's like they walk into an Arab-owned gas station and pick up a Playboy, then start bitching coz the store's owner is Arab and go on an on about how their kind can't be trusted when the real issue should be them lamenting that they are so lame that they can't get a girlfriend so they're reduced to buying this porno mag and going home to jack off to a fantasy they'll never have, hence perpetuating the evident humiliation and adding more embarrassing behavior to their mile-long list of failures that eventually leads up to an obscure and enthusiastically welcomed death due to over-consumption of alcohol and pork products. Ha. While the Arab goes home to his wife and his children, one of whom will inherit his successes and go on to lead a similarly successful life and ensuring his family's prosperity and security, and ultimately, their survival. My hope is that idiots will die off due to their own idiocy and reckless behavior and bad lifestyle choices. And what will be left is the rest of us, free of the woes that plagued our past generations, among those being racism.
Then, and only then, can we live peacefully.
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