https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow Personal Testimonies-- The tweets we used are from a real twitter thread under the hashtag, #AfterSeptember11. We are continuing to give importance to personal testimonies, as we have done throughout past units. Pay close attention to the ways in which tweets share fragments of stories and with them, many emotions and experiences, despite the limited character count. For this part of your assignment, read through the thread and comment a thoughtful response on at least three stories. What do you feel? What connections can you make to your own experiences? Where else have you seen "othering"? en-us 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC 2025-11-20 15:51:24 UTC hello@padlet.com jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638123 #afterseptember11 my parents genuinely asked my brother if he wanted to change his name bc it's Osama. He was 9.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638123 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638128 #afterseptember11 my family considered changing our last name tp just "Kadi" cause telemarketers would butcher our name and call my dad "Mr. Al-Qaeda."]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638128 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638133 #afterseptember11 Most of the kids in school called me a terrorist & asked me if Bin Laden was my uncle. Physically and verbally abused. Not having any friends made it a lot harder.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638133 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638134 #afterseptember11 [I] grew up without a mom because someone with a gun decided that she needed to answer for it with her life.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638134 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638137 #afterseptember11 my grandfather was beaten up on his way to the mosque. They didn't know he'd just lost a daughter on 9/11.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638137 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638140 #afterseptember11 on sep 13, my dad stopped wearing a turban, cut his hair, & shaved his beard bc he was assaulted at work by a white man.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638140 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638144 #afterseptember11 my mom, 6 y/o sister and I (5 y/o) were held in an interrogation room of sorts at the MSP airport bc my mom was talking to my sister and I about what we had planned for the day (all in Spanish) and a white lady felt threatened. We were there for 8 hours.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638144 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638147 #afterseptember11 Shopping w/ my mom who wears a scarf...people making comments next to us assuming we didn't speak English..."Let's leave before she blows this place up"...Knowing that my mom understood and went about shopping as if she didn't broke me.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638147 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638149 #afterspetember11 when you're 8 all of your white friends parents tell them they can no longer speak to you and be anywhere near you. ]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638149 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638152 I have 4 sisters. All visible Muslim women. One of my sisters works w/ special needs kids. She came home from work crying one day because parents told the company that they do not feel safe that their child is there while she my sister is working there.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638152 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638155 #afterseptember11 [I] was told by a Bank of America representative that I couldn't open a joint bank account with my sister because "we don't do business with people like you."]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638155 jocelyn_barrera https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638162 #afterseptember11 I [was] bullied for being Arab in school. And how they would make jokes about how I knew Arabic that anything I write in Arabic was insisting was a threat or a terroristic relation.]]> 2021-03-02 20:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1260638162 https://padlet.com/jocelyn_barrera/fncchwkiensp65ow/wish/1345448247 I think this changed  the racist game alot for the Arabians because now when they see them they are gonna remember 911 alot. - David G
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