by JohnPrusak » November 24th, 2004, 4:16 am
Perhaps my biggest pet peeve in life is racism -- can't stand it, there's no place for it in our society, not to mention this board. For that reason, I can't sit on the sidelines on this post anymore.
My view is this: This incident is the result of ONE man who did something so horrible it is hard to comprehend. That said, he is ONE MAN, and his actions in no way reflect upon his race or his background or his religion, or for that matter, his sexual preference, his favorite sport, the brand of truck he drove or the middle name of his oldest son. He is ONE MAN who did something horrible, and it really shouldn't matter if he is Hmong or not.
If he was a white guy would people be on this board calling for all white people to be banned from the country. "They should lock the Wisconsin borders and just keep out the white man?!" When Jeffrey Dahmer (sp?) or Timothy McVeigh (sp?) did their wonderful acts, would it have been fair to blame those acts on all of us white folk?! Of course not. So don't go overboard and blame the acts of this ONE MAN on an entire culture or race or ethnicity. No other Hmong person has ever done this, just like no other white guy in recent history did what McVeigh did in Oklahoma. Should all people of German decent still bear the cross of Adolf Hitler's regime?
Bottom line: It's not fair to pin the actions of this one psycho on anyone or aything other than on him and him alone -- doing anything else is just plain stupid. Some of the posts on here make me sick to my stomache. Open your minds, people. Grow up and look around you -- we live in a diverse world, and horrible, unexplainable crimes are committed every day by INDIVIDUALS of all races.