As we heal, I hope we will learn the greater lesson necessary to respond to future attacks: that we can't fight bigotry alone. Sayu BhojwaniFor Indian-Americans, this is an opportunity to emerge from a myth of racial ambiguity to a reality of historical racism. But it is neither the first nor last cycle of hate crimes against Indian-Americans in this country. Since I moved to the United States in 1984, there have been at least three periods in which hate crimes against the community spiked. What makes the hate crimes in 2017 different?

Source: CNN March 15, 2017 21:33 UTC