bigotry
Though it was expected, it turns out those dumb, cousin-humping rednecks didn’t try to lynch her:
The last time she’d worn the Muslim dress that, with a head scarf, covered everything but her face, hands and feet, she was in Miami International Airport, where the stares were many and the security check thorough.
This time, she was in a small town called Arab. Arab, Alabama, no less.
“I expected people to say, ‘What is this terrorist doing here? We don’t want your kind here,’ ” said Woldt, a 22-year-old blue-eyed Catholic, recalling her anticipation before stepping into a local barbecue joint. “I thought I wouldn’t even be served.”
Instead, Woldt’s experiment in social anthropology opened her own eyes. Apart from the initial glances reserved for any outsider who might venture through a small-town restaurant’s doors, her experience was a pleasant one.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:32 am
How about a follow-up experiment. Dress her up like a Marine and walk into a Jamba Juice in Berkley, CA.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
If she really want’s to do an experiment in social anthropology, put on a T-shirt with a rebel flag and stroll thru Harlem.
February 10th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Slap on a swim suit and head over to Iran, see what kind of “initial glances” she gets over there.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
She’s not doing it right. A real Muslim would have proselytized in Arab, probably in Arabic. Alabamans are very polite to those they’ve just met. Demand submission, and you get a different answer.
Guess Alabama barbecue isn’t pulled pork then, huh?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I had a spat with Mary Mancini at LibeRadio over this kind of thing a couple of weeks ago. She was calling Southerners “yahoos” and “yokels” and racist. I asserted she was doing what she accused others of and that she really didn’t know Southerners. This helps prove my point.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
“How about a follow-up experiment. Dress her up like a Marine and walk into a Jamba Juice in Berkley, CA.”
I second that, with reservations. In so doing, she could be putting herself in danger.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Dress her up like a Hasidim and send her into a CAIR fundraiser…
February 10th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
“…those dumb, cousin-humping rednecks didn’t try to lynch her :”
Sounds like much of Pakistan: a very Muslim country.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:10 am
What in hell was she doing in a barbecue joint? No doubt you’d expect a lot of muslims in there with their religious prohibition on pork or anything even contacting pork.
I find it fascinating that she’s only testing the rednecks. No doubt the other racial groups in this country are far to protected to test with a similar baiting.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I grew up in the segregated South. I always found funny that folks coming from the North where segegation was a fact of life long after the South had been properly chaistised, still think that we are inherantly more racist then they are.
Heck when I was in CT in the early 90’s, I was told that the Portegese, Italians, blacks, and WASPs all had their own parts of the city and weren’t wanted in each other’s neighborhoods.