Seeing my blazing and raging face, my grandmother took the newspaper, opened it up and asked me to read the whole article. "It is likely that this attack came from the direction of the Mid-East", the counter-terrorist analyst said. Other overwhelming lies and exaggerations were printed throughout the whole article. My grandmother amorously explained to me that most people are uninformed and stereotype people easily, which I should not take personally. .

             The look in her eyes just made me feel so much better. She was so calm and cool about the whole situation. I could not believe that she could be so calm. Her loving gray eyes made me feel so secure and warm. .

             My grandmother tried explaining to me that if I had a problem with the article, I could write to the editor and ask them to print a retraction. I decided not to write to the editor, but it did make me curious as to see what other newspapers were printing. As I did my research, the anger that had built up inside me was unbelievable. I felt as though I was placed in front of the whole world, and everyone was pointing and laughing at me. Here are some examples of what the newspapers said:.

             · "The betting here is on Middle East terrorists," declared CBS News'Jim Stewart just hours after the blast (Naureckas, par. 1).

             · "The fact that it was such a powerful bomb in Oklahoma City immediately drew investigators to consider deadly parallels that all have roots in the Middle East," ABC's John McWethy stated publicly (Naureckas, par 1).

             · "It has every single earmark of the Islamic car-bombers of the Middle East," wrote syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer (Chicago Tribune, 4-21-95).

             · "Whatever we are doing to destroy Mid-east terrorism, the chief terrorist threat against Americans, has not been working," stated the New York Times' A.M. Rosenthal (New York Times, 4-21-95).

             Once again, I felt as though someone had taken my heart and broken it into a million pieces, shattering it all over the floor.