In this viral video, W. Kamau Bell, of the FX Network show Totally Biased, clears up some confusion about Sikhs.
Categories: Hate Crimes, Humor, TV/Movies • Tags: FX Network, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Totally Biased, W. Kamau Bell, Wisconsin
One 11-year-old raised her hand shyly and nervously adjusted her pink-framed glasses as she spoke: “I believe the killer had God inside of him, but he chose not to listen to God and so he did a bad thing. He didn’t see God in other people, and that’s why he could hurt them.” — in an Op-Ed piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Simran Jeet Singh discusses the enlightening conversation he had with Sikh children about the murders that took […]
Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: Gurdwara, hate crimes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oak Creek, Simran Jeet Singh, Wisconsin
Yesterday, after a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US First Lady Michelle Obama met privately with the victims of the August 5 shooting at the Oak Creek, Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting: She spoke briefly with temple secretary Kulwant Dhaliwal and Oak Creek Mayor Stephen Scaffidi, telling them, almost in a whisper, “It’s my honor to be here with you. I’m sorry it’s under these circumstances, but I am anxious to meet with the families and lend whatever support I can.”
Categories: Hate Crimes, Picture of the Day, Politics • Tags: FBI, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Gurdwara, Michelle Obama, Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Shortly after the shooting at the Oak Creek, Wisconsin Gurdwara on August 5, the photo above of a man who was at the scene after the shooting was circulated by law enforcement as a “person of interest”: The tall, muscular man, with a tattoo on his biceps and wearing a pair of dark shades seemed out of place — even suspicious — to some, as he briefly watched and even videotaped the aftermath of the shooting, which left six dead. […]
Categories: Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: Gurdwara, hate crimes, Oak Creek, profiling, Wisconsin
Oak Creek, WI Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy, who heroically took multiple gun shot wounds as he attempted to help victims of the attack on the Gurdwara, has reportedly been released from hospital today: Froedtert Hospital officials announced Wednesday afternoon, August 22nd Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy was released from the hospital. Lt. Murphy was critically injured during the shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek Sunday, August 5th. Lt. Murphy was among the first to the scene of […]
Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: Gurdwara, hate crimes, Lt. Brian Murphy, Oak Creek, Wisconsin
His metal bracelet caught the sun as he gestured toward a bearded, but much taller and quieter man wearing a powder blue turban. “My friend, Mohinder. And I am Cocky Singh. Tomorrow we will go on this adventure, shall we?” The Australian, my husband and I stood, mouths opened, our eyes darting like confused ping pong balls. — In the wake of the August 5 shooting of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Cynthia Inman Graham reflects on her encounters with […]
Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Cynthia Inman Graham, Gurdwara, hate crimes, kara, Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Navjot Kaur, educator and author (who has been featured on this blog before), responds to yesterday’s post “The Oak Creek, WI shooting: education is needed, but so is pursuit of justice“: I agree with the article as a whole yet I still believe education has a pivotal role to play in opening mindsets to differences. When studies show that children learn to stereotype and form prejudice as early as two years of age, those ideas will only become more concrete with […]
Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Education, hate crimes, Navjot Kaur, Oak Creek, Sikh Coalition, Wisconsin
Sharon Pian Chan, of the Seattle Times, argues that the focus on Sikhs in the aftermath of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting may be misdirected: We’ve got problems if the first reaction to the news of the shooting was, “Who are Sikhs?” The first is that our educational system has not done its job in teaching about Sikhism. More importantly, it’s the wrong question to ask. We have not dissected the victims of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, and […]
Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: Amardeep Singh, Electrostani, New York Observer, Oak Creek, Sarah Wildman, Seattle Times, Sharon Pian Chan, Wisconsin
This Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama will be visiting the families of the victims of the shooting at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Her visit is scheduled almost three weeks after the murders of six innocent congregants at the hands of a white supremacist: Tejpreet Kaur, a Sikh Coalition community organizer, called the first lady’s visit a “necessary step.” Victims and their families needed to have the events of Aug. 5 and the loss of family members “recognized at […]
Categories: Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Barack Obama, Gurdwara, hate crimes, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Oak Creek, Wisconsin
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