Sherman Alexie: "16 September lalu, saya sedang berjalan di pusat kota...

"16 September lalu, saya sedang berjalan di pusat kota Seattle ketika truk pick-up ini berhenti di depan saya. Guy mencondongkan tubuh ke luar jendela dan berteriak, "Kembalilah ke negerimu sendiri," dan aku tertawa terbahak-bahak karena itu bukanlah kejahatan rasial seperti kejahatan ironi."

--- Sherman Alexie

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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.