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alternet-culture:

On 9/11/01, Himanshu Suri, writer and member of the rap group Das Racist, watched the Twin Towers fall from the window of his lower Manhattan high school. On 5/2/11, he began retweeting the most racist and offensive hate-mongering on Twitter surrounding the bin Laden killing. In this piece, he reflects on the anti-Muslim, anti-Middle Eastern, anti-South Asian racism he’s experienced for the last ten years.

i’m about to head off to europe for a couple of weeks of rap shows. i leave you with this piece i wrote recently. 

swag, 

himanshu

Brown friends of mine were antagonized and threatened in Halifax in the days after September 11, 2001.

First gen boys with Indian parents who raised them in a Christian household, having violence promised to them by rowdy young white Canadian boys. Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I think of the elementary school kids in Halifax, who live in and around Uniacke Square, who decide they’re Bloods because they like Lil Wayne more than Snoop, and fight one another over dollar store rags flown. No-one invited them to that war, they just didn’t know how to stay out of it.

I blame the grown kids more than the small ones, but this culture is so thick with such poisons. Anyone who gets above it is a superhero.

“There’s a war going on outside no [one] is safe from…”