“She threw her hands out to the side and said, ‘Mama, what the F do you want from me?’ And I threw my hands out and said, ‘If you would just not die, that would be great.’ ”
It was a turning point for Blanchard. “That’s when it hit me: ‘Just don’t die.’ That was literally the moment my brain shifted. Because even standing there, bleeding, I was looking at my baby, and she was OK. And that was all that mattered.”
In the first episode of "Who's Afraid of Aymann Ismail?," Aymann confronts homophobia in his community—starting with a gay, alt-right activist who demonizes ...
Uh-Oh. What's he posting now? Really though, my favorite exchange from this is:
Parvez Sharma: There's no flood of refugees coming into america with the agenda to kill homosexuals.
Aymann Ismail: But what about the Pulse massacre?
Parvez: Well he was raised in this country.
Aymann: How do we know for sure that this isn't going to happen again if we're bring more Muslims into this country?
Parvez: I--I don't understand.
Aymann: Well that's the fear. We're bring in all these Muslims who are homophobic...
Parvez: My Friend, it is okay in the midwest and the entire red map of America to attack & kill homosexuals. Homophobia is not something that is going to ARRIVE on America's shores on the backs of these [Muslim] refugees [because it's already here.]
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