Allah…..

Religion, Prayer, Terrorists, Bombings, Death, Blood, September 11, 2001…..

One word, to be more specific one name.

But notice I basically stereotyped an ENTIRE group of peoples. I just said that this is what I think that all people of the god of Allah were murderers and terrorists.

For that I must apologize.

Not only to that ethnic group but all the others that I treat to a day to day time line, I don’t mean to be that way to you it is nothing personal…really it’s not.

The norm that I live,-is the norm of life that I act out.

There is a very, very, VERY FINE line between stereotypes and prejudice. One is already there, stemmed from the roots of hatred. The other is always implied that that is how people EXPECT OTHER people TO BE.

Depending on the person and the stereotype is how I treat people.

What I see, affects how I feel, which contributes to what I think, that ultimately defines what I do.

So if you think that you are not prejudice at all I want to tell you that you are sorely mistaken. If you don’t believe me I want you to do something and come back and tell me how your experience was. I want you to go out of you comfort area, go out of the community you are used to and go to a community that is the opposite of what you are used to living in. Your community you r life is your “normal”; another person’s community is their day to day life style that is “normal” to them. Would you be able to handle that other person’s lifestyle?

My mentality may be bleak, but to me this is the truth of life that I will have to accept. I don’t see that I am being prejudice to a black man that walks down the street, with each step that he gets closer I clutch my purse closer and closer to me breast.

I have many friends, with many different cultures that I find fascinating. No two of my friends have the EXACT same culture. I know who they are and I am known to their families. They accept my culture as I accept theirs.

(That is what all people ask for. For other people to respect their culture and in return they will respect your own. )

Yet, when I see a mosque, person’s skin, they way they act, I begin to either resent them because of what they have done, not to me personally, but what other people like them, which share a similar culture in general.

Why?

Fear, I think.

Or in other people’s case…ignorance.

They CHOOSE to close their mind to everything, because of the way they were raised, the way they were taught TO BE. They do not TRY to go out and draw their OWN conclusions.

So when and where does the mistake of a person’s treatment end?

Sadly…

It doesn’t.