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...that sense, then, perhaps the slurs were a mixed blessing??though they were hurtful, hate-laden, and extremely inappropriate, they spurred us into action. This is not the first time we have heard slighting remarks about the Asian population, but, now that they are appearing on our own walls, we cannot ignore them as we do when we see them in our newspapers. It is unfortunate that we need to wait for the writing on the wall to be motivated into action, but at least a moment for awareness has now come...
...editors: In the course of her editorial, “The Brown Blessing?? (comment, Jan. 30), Jessica A. Sequeira ventures into the same ignorant and prejudiced groupthink that she is supposedly railing against. Her attacks on Bobby Jindal are politically motivated, but instead of taking issue with his policy positions, Sequeira implies that he is not a true “Indian,” whatever that means. When she writes that Indian-Americans supported Kerry over Bush in 2004 by a ratio of four-to-one, are we to assume that the 20 percent that went...
...former freshman liaison of Bobby Jindal during his Fellowship at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and simply as a politically interested Indian-American, I may be expected to respond to Jessica A. Sequeira’s thoughtful article, “The Brown Blessing?? (comment, Jan. 30) with defensiveness on behalf of the Indian-Americans who disproportionately back Mr. Jindal. Instead, I’d just like to correct a tangential and perhaps unintended insinuation in her otherwise well-argued piece. She writes: “converting from Hinduism to Christianity as a senior in high...
...Then it seemed like a disaster,” Carlson says. “It probably was a blessing??I would have been way too affected, I would have been haunted by covering this kind of thing…[I had] covered a lot of demonstrations, but war is a completely different level of meaning and experience and toll...
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