attack them. >> yeah process that sounds good. but let's see how it plays out in real life. this viral clip features canadian sikh plktens latch watch what he does when this woman. >> what when is your sharia. >> we welcome you. we love you. we support you. and we love you. >> love most cliftons we confronted like that turn the other cheek with a right cross. >> it's important when there is injustice that we all join forces and work you know to address it. >> thank you for reaching out to me. the problem is now everybody is going to me reaching ut you didn't do a show about me. you may have set a troublesome precedent for me. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> he brought a lot to my attention but another expert i wanted to talk to. >> what's your name, zblier my name is dill zufer stene. >> did i meet your dad. >> >> yeah. >> what grade are you? >> i'm in fifth grade. >> now do you go to a school where it's all sikhs or with lots of different kids of different religions. >> there is only one other sikh. >> okay. do kids ever make fun of you because of your ramen or because you cover your hair or anything like that. >> i had some issues like that last year because i moved to a new school. a kid would make fun of me for having long hair. >> when the kids bothered you never thought i should go home and take this off and get a haircut and try to blend in. >> i actually think that i'm lucky to have a sikh. i'm happy to have this. >> nice. nice. that's well said. that's definitely going to be on tovi just so you know that's
what's it like to be a woman in that religion. >> i may not look like a typical sikh woman but i'm 100% sikh. under god we are all equal. that's what sikhism is, men, women, it doesn't matter. but i say we need to walk the talk. even during my election and my mom was knocking on doors and handing out pamphlets. and she was being asked why is your daughter doing this? this is a man's world? and my mom said, well why do we educate our daughters then? if this is what she wants to do i'm going to stand by her. >> for those members of the sikh community saying this. >> yes. >> in that sense what you say about the sikh faith is a lot of times what happens with christianity. what the bible says versus the practitioners of christianity do are far apart. yeah. >> and i think most important part is that we talk about it and have conversation and bring awareness. if you keep quiet about it
the part wasn't lake sikh man comes out of bank. it was larry comes out of bank. it -- they're not looking for sikh actors. what we need is sikh directors, sikh writers and sikh producers to tell their story. >> there is the thing about just like hoping the people who are current in power just expand their idea of what could be, you know what i'm staying, larry is the star and they go it doesn't have to be a regularry. it could be juarez. >> this is where i look at the camera and say it could be jaurez. >> when we first started talking about episodepy wasn't familiar with your name until they said he was in inside man. >> because i was about to walk off the show.
flowers. >> i mean, it's beautiful. it's like spiritual and determined at the same time, you know? with everything going, i kind of feel like i'm in the middle of a dream. i keep seeing things i'm not expecting to see. >> a shower of flowers. >> oh, yeah. >> when i left, i was still shocked that i hadn't heard of this parade before. but also i was a little bit afraid of what happens if too many non-sikhs do hear inter. as a nation, are we ready to handle so many people who look so different from how many of us define an american? are we really ready for a religion that has equity baked into it? are we ready to regularly and truly talk about love, peace and oneness outside of memes and beatle songs? on basic level, can we handle that much access to free food? i hope the rest of us can,
>> really? this is for me? >> that's for you. >> that's the sikh symbol. it's a kunda. it's a circle represents unity and then three swords representing social justice and freedom. >> i'm honored have this. thank you. also, i don't know where you pull this out of. i don't want to make it the creepy illusion that sikhs are magic. i don't know where. you just had it in your hand. >> i pulled it out of my pocket. >> thank you. >> any time. >> thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> the sikh identity is such a large part of their religion that they even have their own style of martial arts called gatka, which dates back to the 17th century. i'm about to get a lesson from a brother and sister, or i'm about to get schooled, depending on your perspective. hey! >> hey, how you doing? >> hello. >> hello, kamau. nice to meet you.
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22% of the area as 66,000 peep. originally from the punjab state of india, they started emigrating in the early 1,900s. today the presence is so strong that in 2017 this happened. >> a roaring applause for yuba city's new mayor. heakes htory as the first american sikh woman to be named mayor. >> to get a better understanding of this town, talking with her seems a great place to start. >> what was the reaction when the story goes out america's first female sikh mayor is elected. what was that like for you. >> you know, i never expected it to be even that big. so it was like, you know, starting to receive the phone calls, all of a sudden the newspaper articles and my daughter just, mom, did you hear this? did you read this? so, yeah, just absolutely in shock, you know.
be judged by god i will ask to see your brother. and i will hug him and i will ask for forgiveness. and rhona says, we already forgive you. >> wow! >> forgiveness is not forgetting. forgiveness is freedom from hate. >> what is it about the sikh faith -- that seems to be like woven into the fabric of the faith. there is certainly a bigger, clearer message about inclusion and equality that i don't necessarily hear from the christianity i grew up in. >> the sikh faith is a faith about love. they see no stranger, no enemy. the stereotypes are embedded in our nation's imagination. we have been wired to see black criminal, brown illegal, transimmoral, women property, turban-wearing muslims, terrorists. it's just the air that we are breathing. and we can't help -- they're in the air. we can't help but absorb them even if we don't endorse. >> i recognize it in myself when i see specifically a man in a turban that i think foreign. >> yes. >> hearing the question how long have you lived in america? nope, nope, nope don't say that. you know, i can feel myself like have to click that button off in my head. >> i can train my eyes to look upon the faces of all strangers i see on the street, on the subway on the screen and say in my mind sister, brother, and if we can see strangers as sisters and brothers, then we are more likely to step into the fire when they need us. so brother, you are in the battle with me. >> i should -- i brought
>> what brought your parents to america in the first place originally. >> to have a better life, the american greem dream. >> and why yuba city. >> agriculture. >> you'll see a large inyan community in farming is common zpl common in india we can farm here. >> yeah. >> i'm i live in the bay area i've never been to yuba city. and also had not heard there was a huge sikh population. >> yeah. >> why hadn't i heard that am i dumb. >> you're not dumb. >> thank you. >> we just live in our silos. >> the mayor said i'm not dumb so i feel pretty good. can you talk about the sikh religion?
it was just for you to we are the turban and beard it wasn't for any sikh? >> yeah, correct. so i was the first religious accommodation in like a generation >> oh, wow. >> for anybody. not just sikhs. after i got my one-off accommodation. i deployed end of 2011 to hellman province in afghanistan. and we saw a lot of devastating injuries. >> i'm guessing none of the people you took care of he you walk in the room and said i'm the doctor said wait you're wearing a turban and have a beard. >> no. >> thank god you are here. >> nobody cares. come on. it took us almost ten years of effort. but we were able to get a policy change that now allows turbans and beards and hijabs, allows for yarmulkes and other religious expression. this is just a policy change for the army. but i was proud and really happy