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Sikh students take message right
into the cab
WSN Network
SEATTLE: A year
after a Sikh cab driver, Sukhvir Singh, was assaulted by a drunk
customer he picked up after a football game, the Sikh community in
the US is still facing a challenge to make fellow Americans
understand how different they are from anyone identified with
unsavoury terror.
Two college
students, Jay Singh and Paul Bassi of University of Washington, keen
to make people understand the message that the Sikh community was
trying to send out thought of a new but simple tactic: they created
an informational sheet about Sikhs for cab drivers to hang in their
cars.
Jay Singh was
quoted in local media as saying that the most important point to get
across is that "Sikhs are Americans, they're people just like you
and I, who are working hard to put food on the table for their
family."
"The students
decided the best way to distribute their placards was not to go
through the cab companies, but through the Sikh community itself. So
they went to a temple in
Renton where
they promptly handed out 250 of their placards," a media report
said.
Naturally the
first rightful recepient of the placard was Sukhvir Singh who had it
in his cab for several months.
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December 2008
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