Comments on: It’s Been Ten Years…

By: Backlash is Part of the Story | Sepia Mutiny

Backlash is Part of the Story | Sepia Mutiny — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:19:26 +0000

[...] Everyone has a story about 9/11, including desis. South Asian American Leaders for Tomorrow (SAALT) has been working to make desi voices a part of the national tenth anniversary commemoration and conversation about 9/11. SAALT’s campaign called An America for All of Us was mentioned in the SM post “It’s Been Ten Years”. [...]

By: nkr

nkr — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:16:56 +0000

nobody in afghanistan had anything to do with 911 – this attack was the work of big satan/little satan so as to keep their permanent war economy functioning and to strengthen their neocolonial policies – (stealing resources of the middle East/Greater India region) – kosher is tortured animals – they enjoy torturing human beings also – one day – o din avai – when these demons in quasi-human form are no more..

By: IwasLiberalOnce

IwasLiberalOnce — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:42:39 +0000

Profiling probably saved lives. Two wrongs do not make a right, unless your family member gets killed due to lack of profiling. just saying.

By: chandru

chandru — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:32:41 +0000

Unbelievable that it’s been ten years already and unbelievable that there is a whole generation of South Asian American youth that don’t remember what life was like before this day. It’s irrefutable that the events on that tragic day have strongly shaped the narrative of being a South Asian American.

Firstly, unless your definition of 'generation' is different than the norm, 10 years does not come close to it. My son, 14, remembers it so any teenager would. Besides, what's your point? What's 'unbelievable' about the passage of time? Better to think that we've had 10 years of mostly terrorist-free times, and that 9/11 was an aberrant blip in the history of terrorism. The undue emphasis on 'remembering' does us all a disservice.

By: topaz

topaz — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:13:53 +0000

Ten years on how have the bloggers changed as visible Americans? Let’s look at the selection of posts on the home page. Have these people developed since they were tweens? Every week is spectacle to self absorbed posts by wanna be pop chix, indignant posts bawling about not being recognized as American but labelled on grounds of brown skin color (this black person wanted to learn more about my Indian heritage, this white person thought I was hispanic, no one asked me what tribe etc etc), posts highlighting the problems of being a picked on religious minority, or posts highlighting entertainers from those and other minorities. Taz, I’m not a South Asian American but here’s my narrative or two cents (cos cents are still part of the currency of my country). I was in Canada when 911 happened. I live in the suburbs and my parents were downtown at some doctor’s office, I think maybe a dentist’s. I think it was my sis from the States who called us at home to let us know. My uncle also from the States was visiting so she wanted him to find out first even before his kids could get through to him. She didn’t want him to panic and was looking out for him. When my parents got home, I went to our neighbourhood park e.g. part of the benefits provided by our taxes with my dad and uncle. The brothers wanted to clear their heads, but more than anything the Sardars wanted to show the world that our community was not responsible so don’t pick on us please. We sat at a wooden table and an elderly white man sat near us to hear their conversation since they were discussing the day’s events. My father made a point of saying that these were disgusting acts and that they should never have happened. And of course, his condolences to the families of the deceased. Like he always did my uncle agreed as do I. My point is that it wasn’t just Americans who got screwed. I know yours is a blog about the South Asian American identity but some of us move about to widen our psychological borders.