Police in Western Washington are searching for the gunman who shot a Sikh man on Friday, March 5. The police and the FBI are investigating the shooting as a hate crime. To date, the shooter still has not been identified. Here’s the response from the India Association of Western Washington.
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Lalita Uppala is a past president of India Association and currently the director of Community program for the association. Here is her commentary.
For decades, they have come to America. They are Fulbright scholars, doctors, engineers, educators, biochemists and more. Some are success stories from the Indian education system, and some misfits there, but we all had in common—this thirst to work hard, live simply and raise our children here in an open, diverse, healthy society with an education system very different from ours.
Breathing clean air, learning how to cook spaghetti right and love the turkey for Thanksgiving, we have slowly assimilated yet in a unique way by assimilating Seattle in our festivals and our colors.
We did all of the above, studied the nights away, saved every penny, walked instead of drove and celebrated
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Sikh Man Shot in Hate Crime