I woke up this morning and saw that Obama is taking questions via twitter again #POTUS — then I saw that the hashtag #IHaveADreamFor2016 is trending — I took the opportunity to express my vision:
Along those lines — one of the things that upsets me the most is the way media outlets portray a region as ancient and beautiful as the Middle East. A lot of negative social stereotypes come into effect and the media is best at egging it on rather than presenting knowledgable information to help our nation better understand a region so unfamiliar to some.
In this incident, and video below, you hear the captain of the U.S. sailors captured, thanking the Iranians for their hospitality and more. I want to focus on Iranian HOSPITALITY — in our culture we treat our guests like royalty. From the moment you enter a Middle Eastern’s home, you are lavished with food, tea, shelter, and anything else they can provide. Every Middle Eastern’s home I’ve entered, family or stranger, I’ve always felt welcomed because that is our way. There is pride and honor for behavior like this because Middle Easterners carry their household name like a trophy.
On Wednesday this week, U.S. Sailors were captured and detained by the Iranians for trespassing in their waters.
What really happened is that The U.S. boats had drifted off course, one even had engine trouble, and ended up in Iranian waters when they were captured and detained overnight.
More precise — two U.S. Navy boats seized by Iran with 10 sailors on board were within three miles of Iran’s Farsi Island when the Iranians took them, according to a U.S. defense official directly familiar with the latest information about the incident.
This raises a lot of questions “about whether the country’s hard-line military force mistreated the Americans or violated international law by using them for propaganda purposes.” — writes the Wall Street journal. I ask, why jump to negative accusations so quick?
Majority of media outlets started to paint Iran and their behaviors in a negative light, even though the sailors on video thanked Iranians for their hospitality. I’m tired of hearing these horrible stories, about my brown people, out of ignorance — you would think news outlets are not biased but GUESS AGAIN. This is like the younger brother picking on one of its eldest. I mean Iran is an ancient land — it dates back centuries ago. They’ve created, built on it, conquered, and against time have survived — they must be doing something right — but that’s a story for another time.
Let’s ask the serious questions here like — Who provides your GPS? Where do the borders of water really end and begin? Is there an indicator and what if the waves move it around — can this happen to anyone? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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