| When someone flips a coin, it will either land on | | | | Pentagon, it seems as if many people have come |
| heads or tails. With other real life experiences, | | | | to regard anyone who wears a turban or hijab as |
| however, the possibilities are boundless and the | | | | an automatic terrorist. |
| end results are not set in stone. | | | | After a tragic event in this country, I notice that |
| A new job can bring a person more wealth or | | | | many of us choose to focus on the ethnic |
| more stress. A teenager can choose to take the | | | | background of the culprit rather than what we |
| drugs someone is offering them or decline. A | | | | can do to better the situation. |
| death can bring a family closer together or | | | | The way I see it, many of us believe that it was |
| further apart. In light of the shootings at Virginia | | | | the race of the shooter, car-jacker, robber, or |
| Tech, America has undergone a terrible event | | | | suicide bomber that compelled him or her to |
| but, instead of allowing this horrific massacre to | | | | commit their crime. |
| bring us together, many people are using this | | | | Your race has nothing to do with how smart you |
| incident as a launching pad for even more violence. | | | | will be, what you can make of yourself in life, |
| The day after the shootings, I went to to watch | | | | what your personal flaws are, or what mistakes |
| news stories about what had happened. I was | | | | you make, so why do we act like that is the |
| disgusted to see that a countless amount of | | | | case? Does it really matter that the Virginia Tech |
| people had left racist comments about the | | | | shooter was South Korean? |
| shooter, a South Korean man. | | | | There seems to be a race among the races. |
| What the shooter did was terrible, there is no | | | | When an illegal act or something terrible happens, |
| doubt about that in my mind, but it puzzled me | | | | people of all races race to bash the race of the |
| that, instead of expressing remorse for the | | | | wrongdoer. |
| victims and the families, many people were able | | | | The results of a tragedy, like the shooting at |
| only to voice their desire that Asians could drive | | | | Virginia Tech, cannot be reversed, but we should |
| as well as they shoot. | | | | strive to make the best of any given situation. |
| Why do we live in an age where everything has | | | | America has come under attack during events |
| to be about race? As the daughter of a Yemeni | | | | such as 9/11 and the Virginia Tech shootings but |
| father, I have experienced the effect of the 9/11 | | | | why do we have to continually attack each other |
| bombings on the Arab community first-hand. | | | | after? |
| After the attacks on the twin towers and | | | | |