“… People still sometimes ask me, why can’t they assimilate more? Dress like us. Talk like us. Perhaps, some seem to believe, that would prevent the sort of tragedy that happened in Wisconsin. I never have an easy answer. But I do know this: to wipe away what has come before, who we have been over the centuries, also means to forget who our own mothers and fathers were.”
–Bhira Backhaus, Sikh author and former Stockton resident. She wrote a piece about Stockton Sikhs in the New York Times.
