On the anniversary of #September11, I usually remember those killed in the attacks and the many more killed in the wars of revenge in Afghanistan and Iraq. And I quote from June Jordan's Some of Us Did Not Die feministgiant.com/p/essay-some-o…
“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?” June Jordan asked in a keynote presentation at Barnard College on Nov 9, 2001.
Days after 9/11, a man tried to set my local mosque on fire and to shoot 2 Muslim men who tried to stop him in Seattle, where I lived at the time. He was too drunk to succeed.
Twelve years later, another man succeeded in setting my brother's local mosque on fire in the Midwest.
Twelve years later, another man succeeded in setting my brother's local mosque on fire in the Midwest.
For the #20thanniversary911, I will be writing a more personal reflection for FEMINIST GIANT.
feministgiant.com
feministgiant.com
5 days before an arsonist set my brother's mosque on fire, I was arrested in NYC for spraypainting over a racist, bigoted pro-Israel ad in the subway,
He struck just a few hours after the mosque's kindergarten had been filled with children at Sunday school, incl my 4 niblings
He struck just a few hours after the mosque's kindergarten had been filled with children at Sunday school, incl my 4 niblings
It was a coincidental correlation but there was nothing casual about either the hate speech on the walls of the subway or the arson.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I broke the law, yes. So what?
I broke it to make a point of principle. Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, American Muslims are still being bullied and vilified.
Where are we now?
#20thanniversary911
I broke it to make a point of principle. Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, American Muslims are still being bullied and vilified.
Where are we now?
#20thanniversary911
In examining how those who survived 9/11 can best honour those killed, June Jordan quotes Holocaust survivor Elly Gross: “I guess it was my destiny to live…To live means you owe something big to those whose lives are taken away from them.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-some-o…
Jordan goes on to ask, “What shall we do now? How shall we grieve, and cry out loud, and face down despair?”: questions that are just as urgent today, in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century, when the death toll in the United States alone is 200 times that of #September11
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