By Marie Beecham — 2020
To truly achieve an equitable, fair, and greener future, we must defend Black lives and our climate future, together.
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The murder of a family friend changed the course of my life. His name was Balbir Singh Sodhi. Four days after 9/11, he was shot in the back in front of his gas station by a man who yelled when arrested, “I’m a patriot! Arrest me and let those terrorists run wild.”
A sea of reporters have asked many Sikh leaders and activists to quantify how many Sikhs had been targeted in hate crimes and murders since Sept. 11, 2001. Although I have helped chronicle hate crimes against the Sikh American community for more than a decade, I could not tell them.
“The greatest social movements in history were rooted in the ethic of love,” says Valarie Kaur.