'Russiaphobia is poisoning a country that has spent years saying Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate; our double standards are revealed as Russians living in the U.S. face the wrath of an angry nation.'
Recently, my mom dropped off a plastic bin full of things I had left in her house thirteen years ago when I left for college. I found trinkets, pictures, and a lot of old school things. On top, was a pile of journals – the type we had to keep in elementary school to answer a daily question or prompt.
“If you had to give a ten-minute speech to your school on any subject you chose, what would it be about and why?”“My speech would be about the terrerists who attacked the World Trade Centers. I would tell them that not all Afganies are bad. In some places people are hurting Afganies that they see on the street. If kids started doing that it would be horrible.”
So why, over twenty years later, are adults unable to see how treating Russians in the U.S. unfairly is also wrong, and in hindsight, will be a mark of shame on the U.S. just like the hatred and mistreatment of Muslims and Middle Easterners after 9/11 were?Imagine for a moment you are working in another country and your employer suddenly demands you publicly reject the country of your birth or face being fired.
“Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward,” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said.
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