“The problem is not with love, it’s the way we talk about it in our country.” If you find yourself wanting to dismiss the word, Kaur explains why. “Anytime I had seen change, it wasn’t our lawsuits and campaigns alone that helped, but lasting change happened…when people rose up in solidarity and approached the fight for social justice from a place of love.” There it is again. “I tie his hair up in a juda, send him off to school, knowing he’s growing up in a nation more dangerous for him, as a little Sikh boy, than it was for me.”Īfter this realization, she left her job at Stanford Law. Kaur had just become a new mother.She shares what would become a typical morning for her and her young son. A post shared by Valarie Kaur 2016, a reckoning of sorts happened for Kaur and America, when Donald Trump became President.
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