• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I remember a recruiter coming up to me, trying to shame me.

    “Don’t you love your country?!” He shouted. This was after 9/11 too, and being brown, I didn’t say what I wanted to say because i was 17 and was absolutely sure this guy would beat me up.