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We are stopped for special checks At TSA and immigration We are murdered In our house of worship Six innocent lives lost Oak Creek Gurdwara, 2012 Racial slurs hit our hearts: Sand ****** ISIS Towel head Out of fear We stop wearing our beautiful salwar kameezes, lenghas, saris, and kurta pajamas In colors and embroidery your clothes could only ever dream of We take off our crowns you call turbans And replace them with baseball caps We think twice about speaking Punjabi, Our mother tongue, Around those that don't recognize it We stop packing our grandma's handmade saag and roti To school for lunch And start eating Processed Lunchables We separate into two people Our American selves And our Punjabi selves Almost never does anyone meet both All because You don't know The difference Between a Sikh and a terrorist
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Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018 at 1:07 PM UTC
Ignorance
We are stopped for special checks At TSA and immigration We are murdered In our house of worship Six innocent lives lost Oak Creek Gurdwara, 2012 Racial slurs hit our hearts: Sand ****** ISIS Towel head Out of fear We stop wearing our beautiful salwar kameezes, lenghas, saris, and kurta pajamas In colors and embroidery your clothes could only ever dream of We take off our crowns you call turbans And replace them with baseball caps We think twice about speaking Punjabi, Our mother tongue, Around those that don't recognize it We stop packing our grandma's handmade saag and roti To school for lunch And start eating Processed Lunchables We separate into two people Our American selves And our Punjabi selves Almost never does anyone meet both All because You don't know The difference Between a Sikh and a terrorist
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Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018 at 1:07 PM UTC
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