{"id":73787,"date":"2017-03-30T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=73787"},"modified":"2017-03-30T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:46:17","slug":"the-turban-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/the-turban-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turban protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 23-year-old Indian-American chose a unique way to speak out about against hate. Angad Singh tied his turban in front of everyone at New York&#8217;s Times Square as a tribute to 66-year-old Timothy Caughman who was recently killed in a racial attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video posted on Facebook, the Sikh man spoke to New Yorkers about rising hate crimes in the city as he stood in solidarity with the victim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Every day when I put on my turban, I am putting myself in hate&#8217;s way&#8221;, he said in the video. &#8220;But I am not scared because putting on my turban is the most American thing I can do&#8221;, he added.The video was posted on Monday and has nearly half a million views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73803 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/turban-prot.jpg\" alt=\"turban prot\" width=\"1366\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/turban-prot.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/turban-prot-768x360.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 20, Timothy Caughman was stabbed to death with a sword by a 28-year-old white US Army veteran James Jackson. Jackson was charged with second degree murder as a hate crime but the charges were later upgraded to an act of terrorism. He told police that he considered the killing to be &#8220;practice prior to going to Times Square to kill additional black men,&#8221; according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Angad Singh said there is a &#8216;growing epidemic of hate in the country and it can only be fought with love&#8217;. He said he went to Times Square because he felt terrorised with the &#8216;senseless violence&#8217; that took Timothy Caughman&#8217;s life but was reassured by the people&#8217;s reactions that only &#8216;love can trump hate&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old Indian-American chose a unique way to speak out about against hate. Angad Singh tied his turban in front of everyone at New York&#8217;s Times Square as a tribute to 66-year-old Timothy Caughman who was recently killed in a racial attack. In a video posted on Facebook, the Sikh man spoke to New Yorkers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[37987,37988,37990,33845,37986,37989],"class_list":["post-73787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-against-hate","tag-angad-singh","tag-love-can-trump-hate","tag-racial-attack","tag-the-turban-protest","tag-timothy-caughman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/turban-protest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}