Recently, I was engaged in a polite online conversation with a friend about the attacks on the US embassies in Libya and Egypt, when a third person interjected to proclaim that the Middle East should be “taken over” and bombed (as if not already happening in several places in the region, but commentary on this is beyond the purview of this blog). The conversation ended when this individual then indicated that he was “ready to commit some hate crimes” as […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Balbir Singh Sodhi, Japanese internment, Libya, Oak Creek, Wisconsin