Word: sikhs
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...while Sacramento approaches an ideal for integration, it certainly isn't paradise. Beneath the multicolored surface, the city's 407,018 inhabitants vacillate between racial harmony and ethnic tension. You see a Sikh casually strolling into a Mexican restaurant for takeout, an Eskimo and a white punk hanging out together downtown. But you also see black and Hispanic parents outraged because their kids' test scores lag behind those of whites and Asians in integrated schools. And you hear Anne Gayles-White, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president, saying "There's still too much hatred and racism in a city like this...
...while Sacramento approaches an ideal for integration, it certainly isn't paradise. Beneath the multicolored surface, the city's 407,018 inhabitants vacillate between racial harmony and ethnic tension. You see a Sikh casually strolling into a Mexican restaurant for takeout, an Eskimo and a white punk hanging out together downtown. But you also see black and Hispanic parents outraged because their kids' test scores lag behind those of whites and Asians in integrated schools. And you hear Anne Gayles-White, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president, saying "There's still too much hatred and racism in a city like this...
...intellectual and practical—actions and ethics and morals and things like that—and that I don’t have enough of the interior and spiritual,” says Harpaul A. Kohli ’02, who was born to a Catholic mother and Sikh father and began the process of becoming a Catholic soon after arriving at Harvard...
...Muslim League government in Calcutta, and the rest of the party across the undivided subcontinent, found the "evidence" it needed for its two-nations theory in the riots it inspired in Calcutta. In 1984 the Congress Party more or less condoned with a shrug the massacre of Sikhs. The Muslim League got its Pakistan, and the Congress was re-elected in the general elections that followed the Sikh slaughter. But the consequences of both "achievements" have haunted this subcontinent...
...owner Sean Moriarty, 31, a full-time St. Paul fire fighter, is learning just how fast capitalism moves: like the rest of the stores in the mall, his shop has had to mark down the T shirts that bear the Sept. 11 date. Gurdial Singh, 50, a turbaned Sikh, has lost some of the business on the AMERICA'S PRIDE shirts he sells out of his kiosk because a kiosk completely devoted to flag paraphernalia opened next to his two weeks ago. And he is discontinuing the OSAMA BIN LADEN WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE shirts after he sells his last...