Retaliating In America

A water filled balloon comes sailing over a crowd of onlookers as it crashes into the back of a rather large individual. Immediately, the drenched victim turns and searches aimlessly for the perpetrator. Only, he finds no one to point the finger at for sure. Ideas of who the culprit may be races through his mind, and now he realizes it was probably the group of his peers that jeer at him every day. This …

…America coped with the tragedy. Hit back! Some stated after the tragedy, the country was just humiliated by a lesser power, we must fight back. Others said no, that we must maintain the respect showed by us from other countries and not physically harm them. Still others expressed their rage inside of the country by discrimination. If you had been hit by a water balloon and stood there humiliated, would you have fought back physically?