Cherrie L. Moraga : A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness Writings, 2000- 2010 On the morning of September 11, I turn on the news to watch the twin towers of the World Trade Center fall to the ground. I am deeply shaken, as is everyone, by the immensity of the assault. My children, leaving their morning oatmeal, run to the TV set. I watch their mesmerized eyes. The scene is right out of an action thriller. This is really happening, I say. I am, I believe, afraid - but of what? In the futuristic action film that is now our lives, the bad (foreign-looking) guys blow up the World Trade Center and good (Anglo- looking) guys bring out the big guns to defend the United States against the assault. But this scenario can bring nothing but pure hopelessness because terrorism will never be defeated by big guns, only by a collective reckoning with the United States own history of global economic terrorism, and the fundamentalism of free enterprise.
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