Last week I woke up early last week to take a nice long walk before heading to work. As soon as I stepped out on the street I hear this women yelling,
"Go The Fuck Back To The Middle East You Mutha Fucker!!",
over and over and over and over and over again.
It was almost like she had the hate speech form of Tourettes.
Every time she yelled I felt like I was being shot in the back. I was standing on the same block that I spent September 12th, 2001 through the 17th with friends. Some of them muslim, me including, consoling each other and lifting our spirits.
I couldn't see who she was screaming at till I turned the corner and saw a dog walker. walking about 10 dogs and he could have been Dominican, Indian, America, Canadian, I thing you get the point.
I know that as they say in "Avenue Q",
"We're all a little bit racist"!
But GD woman you are so in the wrong!
Part of me wanted to fight fire with fire and beat her down with my umbrella yelling,
"Bitch go back to the uneducated rock your crawlled out from under and stick a (*&$(*) in it!"
But as we New Yorkers tend to do in these situations I, Holding my composure trying not to whip her ass, I walked by and minded my own business.
It's becoming more and more difficult for me to walk by such hate with out getting involved. I mean if she were yelling Gay hate speech at a child I think I couldn't stop my self from getting involved but is this any different?
Looking back, maybe calling the police would have been the best thing. I don't know if yelling racist slurs is a crime, (freedom of speech) but, it seemed like she was disrespecting the person she was screaming at, me, the dogs, the human race and herself.
I feel ill just remembering this low point in my life experience.
What would you have done?
Shareef - I enjoy your stories and want to hear more from you! For this reason, I nominate you for the Liebster Blog Award.
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I've been reading your posts because of The Fibitz nominating you. I certainly understand why now.
ReplyDeleteI am a country boy (from Ben & Jerry's state) who has never cared much for city life, and I have never experienced some of the things you describe. However, the subject of this post (hate talk?) can even be found here in the back waters of Vermont. Unfortunately, walking away is the only sane solution that I have found... so far.
You are a good writer and I hope to figure out how to follow your work from WordPress.