I know they've said that, but watching the news earlier today, they kept referring to a "brown" suspicious man in a van. In the end, it might end up being a completely unrelated event to any political movement, but media is already blaming people of color. I'm sure they don't do it on purpose (to a certain extent), but they clearly said that on TV, and people that don't have the common sense to look up or make a fallow-up on the events will be associating it to such things, even if it is untrue. My problem here is that people ARE coming up with those theories which for now, are not proven at all, this is a prime example that our society is jumping to conclusion because of racism. It may or may not end up being an Al Qaeda inspired terrorist attack, but the fact that people are already postulating that it is goes to show how the world works.
@Little Miss Muffet : I'm sorry if I didn't explain myself properly, my point was not that they said they were involved, it was that some people that don't bother to check the news will think that they were. This is absolutely despicable, and trust me it makes me really mad that it is like that, but I've already heard a few people around me make references. Like I said, I have friends of many races and I see what they have to go through and the racism that still occurs, it is an awful thing, but people are already making assumptions. What I said was not a statement that it was a terrorist attack, on the contrary, I'm trying to say that from experience, people are jumping to conclusion and I HATE it.
