Never met a Muslim....

I have to admit, I have never met a Muslim. At least

not that I was aware of. As not all Muslim, from what

I understand dress like what we have seen on the

media.. Meaning the long black dress.. the hood part

and etc.   I did see quite a few walking down the

sidewalk while in Portland.  But none with the full

face covered clothing.  And as we drove by

I wondered what their lives were like here in America.

Hoping people accepted them for who they, the

person, that they are.  

The human race, and I am pretty sure that

America doesn’t have the corner on this…

We, as humans, tend to hate what we fear.

And we fear, because we don’t understand.

And sadly, most of us, although not me,

don’t want to understand.

We did it when I was a young mother… it was

the Russians then later the Vietnamese

and shortly before there was the

Japanese and German. Some who were here before the war.   Before that was the Native Indians, and the

African who were brought here for slavery.

Still both have to deal with prejudices, to this day.

Even movies portray them as evil.

Look at the peaceful protest in North Dakota..

There are some who make nasty remarks, because

they don’t give them the respect they deserve. If

it was the average white person out there protesting

the possible damaging of the water… and the

police, security and etc.. treated them like they

have treated the Natives… wouldn’t there be more

uproar over this?  If they were maced, washed

back into the river with hoses, woman being

punched to the ground?   So why isn’t there

more outrage? Why isn’t the President saying

anything at all.. His silences is deafening.

It is like the Governor (as he is silent too) and

The President don’t feel they are suppose to

be representing the Native Americans as well.

After all we are ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS.  

Again.. we seem to fear, not understand, so

ends up with hate..  Too bad we can’t walk

in our neighbors shoes after all.

Will there ever be compassion for those who

are different than us?  Be it nationality, gender

or any other prejudices we seem to come up

with.    I fear with a President-Elect it doesn’t

look promising.  And it seems those who

follow him, feel they have been given a

license to hate.  Be interesting to see how

he gets out of this one.