A New Anti-Bullying Campaign Brings Hope for Sikhs in the US

NEW YORK : The Sikh Coalition successfully launched a national anti–bullying campaign in partnership with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). This campaign seeks to raise awareness about bullying faced by children in America; especially Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Sikhs, Muslims, LGBTs and immigrants.The campaign introduces the #ActToChange website which features blogs, resources and video testimonials, about bullying, from celebrities, athletes and community members, in multiple languages.The Sikh Coalition, an organisation that was formed after the September 2001 attacks were all too familiar with the bullying of Sikh kids.The website has incidents, documented over years, which fit into the ugly pattern of attacks on Sikhs because people confuse their beards and turbans with that of Muslim terrorists.There were reports of several shocking attacks on Sikh kids who had their hair cut off or their turbans pushed off their heads. In one case, a Sikh student had his head shoved into a toilet.