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missmara13America is built on diversity. And yet on June 19th a young man who is half Scottish and half African-American was arrested in Seattle. His crime? He was tkaing photographs of an area considered 'sensitive'. The reason it's digusting? It's a popular public attraction and thousands of people take pictures there a year. In fact, several WHITE people have gone since to take pictures and guess what? They weren't arrested or harrassed.
The ACLU has become involved, and apparently it's making news in Seattle. I read about it on an LJ of a Seattle Resident. But this kinda predjudice is something that we all need to be aware of. It's happening.
What really pisses me off about it, is that while I am clearly white (Though suppossedly there's some Native American a couple generations back on my Dad's side), my brothers are half East-Indian. They look a lot like the pictures that were shown of the 9/11 terrorists. Seth is safer, he's on a ship patrolling the waters of South America to try and stop drug smugglers, but Owen is in Denver, where there's been numerous incidents of cops behaving in racist ways towards pretty much anyone who isn't white.
It scares the crap out of me that we live in a world where, if you're dark skinned, taking pictures of a place thousands of people take pictures of is a crime.
It's just disgusting.
The ACLU has become involved, and apparently it's making news in Seattle. I read about it on an LJ of a Seattle Resident. But this kinda predjudice is something that we all need to be aware of. It's happening.
What really pisses me off about it, is that while I am clearly white (Though suppossedly there's some Native American a couple generations back on my Dad's side), my brothers are half East-Indian. They look a lot like the pictures that were shown of the 9/11 terrorists. Seth is safer, he's on a ship patrolling the waters of South America to try and stop drug smugglers, but Owen is in Denver, where there's been numerous incidents of cops behaving in racist ways towards pretty much anyone who isn't white.
It scares the crap out of me that we live in a world where, if you're dark skinned, taking pictures of a place thousands of people take pictures of is a crime.
It's just disgusting.
