The+Parallelism

The most obvious them shown after 9/11 was the racism against the Muslim race. Much like Sojourner's story except with the race changing from black to Muslim. Being post 9/11 seeing a Muslim looking person made most people suspicious. Especially when they are on an airplane. Sojourner Truth's recollection talks about her experience with a driver who didn't want to give her a ride because of the recent slavery problem. In our post 9/11 story Muslim's find almost as much difficulty taveling by airplane as sojourner did getting a ride.

In this account a Muslim man was on his way to New Orleans to visit family. He was well aware of the fact that he was Muslim and also noticed three Muslim ladies on the plane with him. When they arrive to their destination he expects that he will be interrogated and also thinks that the ladies will be too just because of their race. Well he was right and not only was he interrogated, and the ladies were too, but the gifts he brought for his family were all opened and his private items all searched and mistreated.

Though he had expected the interrogation he was not expecting the unfair treatment he recieved just because of his race. Everybody is equal no matter the race and should not be treated anyless or any more than that. Just like in Sojourner's story there was racism that affected a group of people who are all looked at to be the same person.

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