“When he won, I was not really surprised. As a Muslim woman who came to the USA after 9/11, unfortun
“When he won, I was not really surprised. As a Muslim woman who came to the USA after 9/11, unfortunately I have already been made aware and subjected to a certain vision of what being a Muslim is, and that has not changed in anybody’s eyes. With the election and the campaign, the rhetoric become more vocal, and people felt empowered to no longer be civil or courteous and to just say what they feel. So as a country, we sat there, and people were not moved enough to stop it.” —Seydi Sarr, 42, an immigrant rights advocate from Senegal who has been living in the US since 2003, in an interview with Vox’s Alexia Fernández Campbell about what it’s like to be foreign-born right now in Trump’s America. -- source link
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