My best friend spent Wednesday afternoon in a New Jersey hospital, working to treat emergency workers suffering from exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
His sister spent the afternoon at home, recovering emotionally after a middle-age woman hit her in the head with a rock, assuming the young woman to be Arab and thus deserving of such an attack.
Earlier that morning, in a nationally televised speech, President Bush had said: “This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil, but good will prevail.”
We should remember, however, that we are not synonymous with the former, nor are we incapable of the latter.
I should mention also that my friend and his sister, although born in this country, are of Indian descent. (And for what it’s worth, they are Hindu, not Muslim.) Like the suspected terrorists, however, they have a light-brown complexion.
