Help me DUers!

[thestatusquo]

Hello my faithful friends,
I know that you guys will help me out. I'm writing a paper on the rhetoirc of patriotism after 9/11. I need to find specific instances of intolerance toward minorities inside the US and also instances of intolerance and derogation of other countries outside the US. I need articles! NY times, CNN, BBC etc...

I knew that DU was the place to turn for this one! You guys are the best!

[wryter2000]

1. Try googling

Try googling "freedom fries." That ought to give you lots of articles about putting down the French.

[auburngrad82]

2. From "Take Them At Their Words"

"If I see someone comes in that's got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over." -Rep. John Cooksey (R-LA)

"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies." - Rush Limbaugh

"We have in our city...in our nation, not hundreds of thousands but millions of sub-humanoids, savages, who really would feel more at home careening along...the dry deserts of eastern Kenya, people who, for whatever reason, have not become civilized." -Bob Grant, then with WABC-NYC

"Take Them At Their Words; Shocking, Amusing, and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004", by Bruce J Miller with Diana Maio (2004 Academy Chicago Publishers) is a collection of quotes from right-wingers. A great source.

[amber dog democrat]

3. Check this out - Furious George

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/markosmoulitsas/story/0,15139,1325454,00.html

[ET Awful]

4. The first one that comes to mind is the Sikh man in Phoenix

that was shot because some asshole thought he was muslim http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/gen.mesa.shooting/

A listing of numerous other incidents can be found at:

http://www.esrnational.org/discrimincidents200109.htm