> > How many cars on cinder blocks in the front yard? > >
To my eye a nice thing about this is that it was not overtly some townies punching out out some 'Ru' and calling him anti-meditator epithets. That is a change of the story that way. Things are vastly different from years ago here as far as the Ru-Townie bigotry story goes but potentially it could always be there. It is much more a complaisance of 'live-let-live' on most people's part now. But the unrestrained viciousness of this attack on the Arab-American is noteworthy differently and makes it an American story in a larger context. -Buck in FF > > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Iraqi American Filmmaker Beaten in Fairfield > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > > "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Iraqi American Filmmaker Beaten in Fairfield, > > Iowa > > > > > > > > > > > > Police in Iowa are investigating a possible hate > > crime after an Iraqi > > > > American filmmaker was beaten over the weekend at > > a house party in the town > > > > of Fairfield. Usama Alshaibi said four men > > attacked him after learning his > > > > first name was Usama. The attack left him > > bloodied and bruised. Alshaibi is > > > > currently working on a film about discrimination > > against Arabs in the United > > > > States. > Yes, very poor judgement, but that usually goes along with being drunk. Also, > nobody just wanders into a party even in a college town. There's always some > guy > there asking who are you with before letting you in at even the wildest frat > parties. Also, did this occur on the west side of town? I lived there for a > couple of months once and left. Very funky, low-rent, redneck place. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > > > Or go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Â Â fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > >
