My stupid small town had a full lockdown and a terrorism meter in front of city hall. My teachers flipped out and told us to hide under the desks, lots of weeping kids thinking their parents had just gotten blown up. Everyone became incredibly racist overnight too and at one point the police department came to our elementary school and instructed us on what a Muslim looks like so we'd know to report them.
I lived in the south, like 1500 miles away from NYC and there were still terrorism drills going on as recent as like 2010.
Everyone became incredibly racist overnight too and at one point the police department came to our elementary school and instructed us on what a Muslim looks like so we’d know to report them.
Horrific racism aside, the funniest part is that this implies Al-Qaeda members wouldn't think to shave and put on a baseball cap (I'm assuming they taught a very specific stereotype of "what a Muslim looks like") to blend in before they terrorized a random American small town.
Oh they told us that was a possibility too. One of my teachers gave us a whole lecture about how Muslims could hide among "normal people" and that we should be on the lookout for any anti-American sentiments. We were even told our fellow students could be "secret Muslims." One time a cop in high school cornered me and asked if I had seen anyone suspicious, I asked what he meant, and then he gave an example of someone wearing a turban. This particular racist panic came to its culmination with Obama's election I guess.
9/11 was a really weird time for me, since I was getting around to an age where I was more aware of the world, but also the world was getting extremely weird
Did I mention the daily flag prayers my school did? They did that. Just loop hands around the flag and pray for America and Bush.
My stupid small town had a full lockdown and a terrorism meter in front of city hall. My teachers flipped out and told us to hide under the desks, lots of weeping kids thinking their parents had just gotten blown up. Everyone became incredibly racist overnight too and at one point the police department came to our elementary school and instructed us on what a Muslim looks like so we'd know to report them.
I lived in the south, like 1500 miles away from NYC and there were still terrorism drills going on as recent as like 2010.
Horrific racism aside, the funniest part is that this implies Al-Qaeda members wouldn't think to shave and put on a baseball cap (I'm assuming they taught a very specific stereotype of "what a Muslim looks like") to blend in before they terrorized a random American small town.
Oh they told us that was a possibility too. One of my teachers gave us a whole lecture about how Muslims could hide among "normal people" and that we should be on the lookout for any anti-American sentiments. We were even told our fellow students could be "secret Muslims." One time a cop in high school cornered me and asked if I had seen anyone suspicious, I asked what he meant, and then he gave an example of someone wearing a turban. This particular racist panic came to its culmination with Obama's election I guess.
9/11 was a really weird time for me, since I was getting around to an age where I was more aware of the world, but also the world was getting extremely weird
Did I mention the daily flag prayers my school did? They did that. Just loop hands around the flag and pray for America and Bush.
Wow. It's way worse than I thought. :jesus-christ:
South moment
I can't wait to hear the fucked up stories people will have of going to school when the 'rona began.
I live in the place the planes came from and I don't remember a single thing being out of the ordinary that day, granted I was 5.