FROM MY JOURNAL: 9/20/01:
"I was walking past the peace demonstration in front of the MLB (which, if you were not a part of it, demonstrated your guilt as a racist and jingoist), where they were telling whoever was listening that they opposed the stereotyping of Arab-Americans and the construction of internment camps. Bold stands, both. I was passing some construction workers sitting in the back of a pickup truck nearby. As I shook my head, both nodded their solidarity with me. Said one: "Sounds like they?re smokin? the cheap shit, huh?" "
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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