Good Look: 'We are all Sikh now' - Melissa Harris-Perry
Last weekend, Melissa offered a moving response to America's latest mass shooting, a senseless act of violence interrupting preparations for a birthday lunch at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee. In her Footnote, Melissa made reference to Sikh documentarian and activistValarie Kaur who was on the ground in Oak Creek speaking with and documenting the community's recovery. Valarie had already written what I considered the most necessary piece in the days immediately following the shooting, writing in the Washington Post that the media shorthand "mistaken identity" -- describing how the white-supremacist killer may have thought Sikhs were Muslims, because we can get why they would be targeted -- should be forever retired.....
Last weekend, Melissa offered a moving response to America's latest mass shooting, a senseless act of violence interrupting preparations for a birthday lunch at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee. In her Footnote, Melissa made reference to Sikh documentarian and activistValarie Kaur who was on the ground in Oak Creek speaking with and documenting the community's recovery. Valarie had already written what I considered the most necessary piece in the days immediately following the shooting, writing in the Washington Post that the media shorthand "mistaken identity" -- describing how the white-supremacist killer may have thought Sikhs were Muslims, because we can get why they would be targeted -- should be forever retired.....
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