For children of immigrants like me, ‘go back’ is a familiar racist taunt

15 July 2019, 6:45 pm

I had just published a story on Sikhs who’d been attacked after being mistaken for Muslims, when the email popped into my inbox. “Are you from Iran?” the stranger wrote. “If so, go back! God Bless America.” By that point, two years ago, I had grown accustomed to the type of fan mail that questioned...... Read More »

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