A DREAM IN DOUBT, OR, CAN BIGOTRY DRIVE YOU CRAZY?
PBS Independent Lens
"Mental Illness" vs" Prejudice

"He's called [Black people] 'niggers' before"...
--Frank Roque's daughter


"Patriot" "American" bigot kills Sikh on Septmber 15, 2001. His name was Balbir Singh Sodhi, the US's first casualty of 9/11 anti-Arab, anti-turban, anti-brown-person hysteria.

These "Patriot" "American" people make the American Dream -- whatever that's supposed to be -- into a nightmare. I remember hearing that Sikh men were being begged to take off their turbans in the wake of the murder.

Not surprisingly, they are the same old Save Our State, VDARE, American Patrol, American Renaissance, Peter Brimelow worshipping H1B.Info anti-India crowd, still blubbering that "Indians" are stealing "their" jobs. Frank Roque still blames the tee vee for showing 9/11 footage and making him go out and kill, 4 days later.

7 years later, there's a documentary on the family and the incident.

Prejudice IS mental illness.


A Dream In Doubt PBS.

More:

Frank Roque

Historical - 1984 Golden Temple from a Sikh point of view

Sikh American Legal Defence and Education Fund (SALDEF)

Self-referrential humor post

MADRASSA CURRY

Was in Williams-Sonoma the other day, looking at high-end cookware. The chatty young lady behind the counter was cooking up some Maiya Kamal curry, which comes prepackaged at W-S. (In my city, Kamal also offers fresh versions in the refrigerator sections of foodie stores.)

She asked me if I wanted to try some, and I did. It was really good. She told me, we have it on the shelf around the corner. It's the madrassa curry.

"Madrassa curry?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Madrassa curry. It's one of my favorite sauces we sell here."

"Madrassa curry," I repeated again. "Uh-huh," was the reply.

So, I bought some,. It really is quite good.