OPINION: In blue cities, new resolve to address hate crimes
Harmann Singh, a Sikh and first year student at Harvard Law School, was shopping in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week when a stranger called him “a [expletive] Muslim.”
Recounting the incident to a crowd gathered on the Massachusetts State House steps Monday morning, Mr. Singh said he was surprised that no one in the store intervened after the stranger began harassing him.
“At a moment when many of our brothers and sisters across the country do not feel safe in their own homes,” he says, “we must stand up to those around us.”