Letter to the Editor: If Virginia will celebrate “Confederate History Month,” then it’s ok for New York to celebrate ” Al Qaeda Terrorists Month.” After all, both the Confederacy and Al Qaeda attacked the United States of America. Both groups hoped to stand up for their radical beliefs, the Confederacy for slavery, Al Qaeda for their radical form of Islam and their own brand of terrorism.
But the Rebs were Americans while Al Qaeda are not, you argue. Some members of Al Qaeda are Americans, too. Shouldn’t their sacrifice for their cause be honored just as Virginia will honor their traitorous terrorists?
Osama bin Laden, you insist, is a horrible terrorist hiding in a cave while the great Gen. Robert E. Lee was given amnesty for his slaughter of tens of thousands of U. S. citizens, thousands upon thousands more U. S. citizens than those killed by Osama’s ragtag band, and a statue of him sits astride his honorable horse in many a Southern state capital.
Good point! Had Robert E. Lee and his fellow insurrectionists been sent to a nineteenth-century Gitmo rather than slapped gently on their hands, perhaps we would not today — one hundred forty-five years later — still be revisiting the issues of the Civil War. Ol’ Virginie would not still be terrorizing it black citizens by celebrating their ancestors’ slavemasters and traitors to their country — our country. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann would not still be rallying radical groups who continue to make racial superiority assertions and talk of “secession.”
Yuma Michaels of Sedona, AZ
It is estimated that between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
Slavery in Libya – Wikipedia
When you refer to the US civil war, learn your history.
Arabs were the slave traders in Africa and they consider themselves superior to African blacks, as the Arabic language has derogatory terms used for centuries for black, Asian and Caucasian ethnic groups. Grow up and learn history from more than CNN and California public schools all taught by biased ignorants.
The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Yang writes that the panethnic definition of Asian American is a unique American construct, and as an identity is “in beta” while the majority of Asian Americans feel ambivalence about the term “Asian American” as a term by which to identify themselves. Panethnic definition of an Asian American IS A UNIQUE AMERICAN CONSTRUCT, explains Yang.
Pyong Gap Min, a sociologist and Professor of Sociology at Queens College, has stated the term is merely political, used by Asian-American “activists” and further reinforced by the government. Beyond that, he feels that many of the diverse Asian people do not have commonalities in “culture, physical characteristics, or pre-migrant histories.”
In other words, your words and ideas @michaels are meant to be racially malignant and ethnically divisive.
Again, a Panethnic definition of an Asian American IS A UNIQUE AMERICAN CONSTRUCT. It is the exact same construct for every ethnicity in America. It is why we Americans don’t recognize VP Harris as being Asian American (or Jamaican American), she’s American to us and we expect to be Americans to you and everyone else.
My grandmother gave me an answer when asked if she was Asian American, American Asian, Asian or American, “We are Americans. Dumb question. We know who we are and where we live. Eat your dinner, stop wasting time, auntie is facetiming in an hour. What’s this about cybersecurity hacks? Should I worry?”