Cookies

[emokid08]

I wrote this article in response to a girl who made vile and disgusting comments about Immigrants from South & Central America. Her remarks were truely outrageous and filthy, and deserved response. I took it upon myself, seeing as no one else really cared about the bigotry she professed. It deserved to be in the school paper, seeing as no one took her on in when she made the remarks in class.Later in the day, she asked for some of the cookies I had made for the class, and I denied her any.

"I didn’t give Bridget a cookie because she demonstrated the malicious qualities of a bigoted racist, yet she calls me an asshole?

She sat back and spewed her intolerance and racial stereotypes while many laughed it off and claimed she was just joking. All harmless fun. Yeah right. The tone of her voice and the stinging of her words indicated quite the opposite of joking. Even if she was supposedly joking, I believe she crossed the line and went too far.

And how dare she try and claim ignorance! How dare she make such deplorable and slanderous remarks about the hardest working group of people in this nation today! Completely ignoring the facts and reality, she of course takes the low road, the easy way out, and attacks the way they look, their personal cleanliness, their hygiene, and their inability to make money or achieve celebrity.

How dare she criticize Immigrant Day-Laborers! They attempt to escape the abysmal black hole that Capitalist Globalization has created in their respective native lands by coming to this nation seeking opportunity and equality. They arrive here after harrowing journeys and contribute back-breaking work, and they are thanked not with the rewards they have earned or the appreciation they deserve, but with hatred from narrow minded bigots. Workers, who after escaping the ravages of Capitalist Super Exploitation in the Third World, come here and do a hard days work, are rewarded only with the poison spewed from people with the same mindset as Bridget.

We should be busy appreciating these people’s hard work and celebrating their vibrant culture instead of attacking them over false stereotypes or petty assumptions about the way they look.

The immigrants who come to this nation know the value of sacrifice and hard work, whereas most white people are lazy and glutonous.

We should be thanking these hard working people, not attacking them with the vile poison of hatred or making bigoted assumptions about their abilities or appearances or looks.

Our nation would be nowhere with out their valuable contributions to society. They deserve the cookies; after all, they earned them!

An injury to one is an injury to all!

-Brian McGuire"

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[Wanted Man]

Damn, I thought this was going to be about how I can bake myself some good cookies. That would have been more useful than this article. I'm sorry, but did you expect this to be in the school paper? Now then, let's see why this is useless to other school kids: Nobody cares about your feud with "Bridget".
Refusing to give someone a cookie makes you look petty, and cookies are really rather insignificant in the first place.
She criticised immigrant day-labourers, but then again, not many people know anything about them and their situation, so they might wonder what's so bad about doing that.
What is "capitalist super exploitation"? I know, but does your average reader?
The overal radical and combative tone.
I agree that she probably did say racist bullshit, but the way you went about writing the article was very unconvincing. Either think of a better "sanction" for Bridget than not giving her a cookie, or don't think of any of them at all. The part where you(rightly) criticise her racism sounds more like moral preaching rather than a serious criticism. Also, since your audience is probably white(you don't have to answer my question, but: are you white as well?), it's probably not a good idea to make broad generalisations about how one group is hard-working, while the other(your target audience, and probably you, included) is lazy and gluttonous. Telling people what "we should" do is even worse.