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If you want to take a breather from the national mood of celebration over the assassination of Osama bin Laden, there are a few voices amid the chaos calling attention to what some of the rhetoric means for communities of color.
One of those voices is Himanshu Suri, a member of Das Racist. (Which is fitting, since the group's raison d'etre can be traced to flare-ups of American racism, and rage against the machine of it).
About a month after 9/11, Suri was still in high school and told an interviewer that when he wanted to volunteer downtown, his mother wasn't having it, "My parents were scared," he said. "People don't see a difference between Sikhs and Muslims."
Over on his Tweetstream, @Heems has been reTweeting some of the xenophobic knee-jerk reactions to bin Laden's death that were only nominally connected to this event, and mostly just propagate the decade-old post-9/11 backlash. He began with a sentiment that occurs to many Americans with roots on the subcontinent or the Middle East whenever big 9/11-related news hits :
If you want to take a breather from the national mood of celebration over the assassination of Osama bin Laden, there are a few voices amid the chaos calling attention to what some of the rhetoric means for communities of color.
One of those voices is Himanshu Suri, a member of Das Racist. (Which is fitting, since the group’s raison d’etre can be traced to flare-ups of American racism, and rage against the machine of it).
About a month after 9/11, Suri was still in high school and told an interviewer that when he wanted to volunteer downtown, his mother wasn’t having it, “My parents were scared,” he said. “People don’t see a difference between Sikhs and Muslims.”
Over on his Tweetstream, @Heems has been reTweeting some of the xenophobic knee-jerk reactions to bin Laden’s death that were only nominally connected to this event, and mostly just propagate the decade-old post-9/11 backlash. He began with a sentiment that occurs to many Americans with roots on the subcontinent or the Middle East whenever big 9/11-related news hits :
It was only a week ago that Fourth Wall Studios shocked the transmedia community by laying off a large chunk of their staff, a change that hit both company and community like a sudden loss of oxygen.
“The one thing that I keep coming back to with this show is that I feel like it’s hard for people to behave badly and to do the kind of violence that’s going on when there’s cameras present.