Karl, I am very sadened by your poor choice of words on today’s show. To say the “face of terrorism is brown” is just appaling coming from someone like you. Do you have any middle eastern or hispanic friends? How do you think that makes them feel? What about the middle eastern or “brown” kids who go to school every day and face xeniphobic comments just like that does that not enter your conscience? As someone from the gay community how do you not see the danger and irony in making sweeping generlazations like that? You should know better.
Sad and disappointed,
Tarik Ragab
Artist & Musician
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Reply:
Yes, I have many middle eastern and hispanic friends. And the face of terrorism is still brown (and black in African nations).
Those kids should know the truth of the matter, and grow up to change the fact. I don’t make up facts, I simply reiterate them.
Outside of Timothy McVeigh, the damage done to America (deserved or otherwise) has been by Middle Eastern men. Oh, and drug cartels in Mexico are terrifying organizations as well to the Mexicans.
When you have more than “the gay community” to throw at me “which, by the way, for years I said was the face of AIDS and it was until Blacks surpassed us in infections and still maintain that if you contract HIV in America in 2010 you deserve it (still deserve love and treatment, but you worked hard to get the virus unless you were raped or given bad blood).
Life is generalizations. I’m sorry Tarik, but Brown is the face of terror in the 21st Century (although one could argue the U.S. does more to cause terror around the world, and is a white face…but that’s another argument).
Be well.
Karel
