| tolerance and equality, please |
it is really close to the World trade center, i thought. but then i also thought about something more important: that Muslims died in the tragedy as well.
talked to a cool cop that was stationed there. said they have to be around 24 hours now. but not much trouble since Sept 11.
i think the deal that i feel worst about is the fact that the building, which housed a Burlington coat factory (holy ground!), is a nice, old fashioned, i think neo Federalist style building. i think a military guy is trying to get it on landmark status now (which im sure he would've done if there were no Muslims moving in, and im sure he's not doing it to keep Muslims away!)
old fashioned bigotry also still runs in NYC though unfortunately, lately: literal gay bashing (even in the STONEWALL INN and Chelsea recently!), immigrant bashing, and the above. the first area settled by European colonialists, still bigoted after all these years.
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