We arrived in America more than a century ago with vitality, potential, wisdom, and many words—but hate in the form of white supremacy has tried to kill us. Hate paralyzes our bodies and silences our voices. It finds us in our homes and houses of worship, our schools and streets, and online. Hate strips us of language and denies us recognition. To this day, America cannot pronounce our names or remember our tragedies. Our turbans mark us as terrorists, not seekers of truth and justice. America forgets us, or never knew us to begin with. Yet we go on living; we refuse to die. In fact, we find a
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