VICTIM OF HATE
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce
I feel sick at heart knowing the hate swelling in people for others because of petty reasons, or else questioning their sense of belonging. The big question is this: where can we put our hatred while we say our prayers?
A middle-aged white man in Kansas City shot and killed an Indian-American engineer after shouting, “Get out of my country!” He was nervous. He looked like he was down. He felt stupid.
A Painful Story.
The right words can never seem to come. How can a person kill someone after questioning that person’s belongingness to a nation? One thing I would like to suggest is that for the ease of people to manage and justify things properly, we are separated by different states and countries; it is not about belonging to a particular region, but the world. We all belong to the same world, which we should try to make a better place to live, not only for us but also for the generations to come.
The news featured in the Financial Times on March 4, 2017, about an Indian-American victim of a hate crime, tells much about suffering. The fatal attack in Olathe, Kansas, in the United States, reverberated in the tidy Virginian suburb of office parks and strip malls, about 35 miles northwest of the White House. Adam Purinton, 51, allegedly shot two Indian-American Garmin engineers who were enjoying an after-work drink, believing they were Iranians, according to police. Mr. Purtino is on trial and accused of killing Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, and wounding both of Kuchibhotla’s friends, Alok Madasani, 32, and Ian Grillot, 24, who tried to tackle the gunman.
If you want to be miserable,
hate somebody.
The Pain Never Stopped
How miserable she felt. Sunayana Dumala, one week after her husband’s killing, feeling isolated and lonely, asked on Facebook, “The question that is in every immigrant’s mind: Do we belong here?” It is painful seeing the intense hate in people instead of love and peace for others. This needs to stop.