Monday, November 28, 2016
Muslim Family gets a hateful letter- Zia Bella Blair
The Samel family immigrated to the U.S. from Sudan in 2010. They became naturalized citizens in May 2015 and moved into a new house in Iowa City, Iowa, that December. Amar Samel, his wife and four children were all settled into their new american life wirh jobs and schooling. They had been living in the house for 11 months when Amar came home to a less then welcoming note on his front porch. It read "You can all go home now. We don't want terrorists here. #trump." The police weren't very supportive and suggested that Amar just throw the note away. However the neighbors reacted in a more positive way and left kind notes, flowers, and sweets at the Samel's door. This makes me hopeful because in a world where hate is still prominent, love still grows. We should all remember this in the times ahead.
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It's pretty sad that people leave things for people find, probably as a joke or an immature gesture. But thanks to those who left flowers, sweets and such, that shows that people at still care.
ReplyDeleteIf these people are willing to go out of their way to be rude and islamophobic, then this is extremely worrying. Not just that, whoever left that letter obviously knew the family and enough about them. To think that there are people around you who could turn out to be so terrible.
ReplyDelete-Anna Czyzewski
This really does give me hope that there are still many caring people in the world. For this one hateful letter there were many more positive and uplifting letters.
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible, but it shows how something terrible really brings the most beautiful things out of people. For one of the hateful letters, people come together to create something more beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThis perfectly shows why I am afraid now that Trump is president. Hateful attitudes are being encouraged and brought into the light. Lack of police support relates heavily to the lack of police support given to people of color in the past (and even today). They were not permitted (sometimes by law) to raise accusations of a legal nature against a white person. Hate crimes committed by the KKK were supported or ignored by law enforcement, from burning crosses and hate mail to lynchings performed by a mob. It's noce that the neighbors weren't jerks and behaved lice decent human beings, though.
ReplyDelete-Cal Thompson
this is terrible but it allowed people people to still have hope
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible. Hopefully one day people will start to realize that their harsh actions aren't effective.
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