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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.

3 December  2008
 

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