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Waris Singh Ahluwalia is always searched, but it’s truly random |
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Rootsgear… which designs T-shirts with political and social messages and a hip-hop sensibility aimed at Punjabi Sikh youth, says its Facebook group helps the company stay connected to regulars in its ethnic community and the socially conscious rap scene… the page drives more traffic to Rootsgear… than Google… or MySpace… [WSJ]
on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007, 1:58 pm in Ads, Business, Fashion, Religion, Sikhs › 
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OMG. I need this shirt.
Also, stop posting photos of my boyfriend without asking me.
;)
He’s hiding terrorists in his turban.
I hope that in the next release, they will print “Following Airports” above the map; else, I’ll find it irritating and will have to visit my therapist again.
Ha ha ha. That bothered me too.
Cool shirt. Great wit.
Interesting shirt… but I have to ask… what’s the big deal about getting searched at the airport?
I travel quite a lot, and have had maybe more than my share of searches. I take it in stride and let security (more often than not minorities themselves) do its function. In the American transit section of international terminals I always undergo extra screening… big deal it takes 2 minutes tops.
Everywhere I go in the Middle East one overhears the US being condemned as the devil incarnate — ridiculous IMHO. As a dark-skinned fellow, people often assume I am sympathetic to these feelings — the mixed blessing of being a non-standard American abroad. They couldn’t be more mistaken.
Every time I come home from travel, I thank my lucky stars for living in the
Land of Free
Home of the Brave
One of my favorite airports has excerpts of the US Constitution proudly written in Gigantic font across the walls. This magnificent document and the Bill of Rights are triumph in human political thought.
Sure there are plenty of problems with the US, and biggest room in one’s house is the room for improvement. However, I can give you a much longer list of racial/ethnic/technical/economic problems for almost every other country except for Austria where the women are just too hot.
Back to the screening… I would like to here some proposals on the “correct” way to screen people. Random screening isn’t useful or efficient… we have enough information about crime to come up with a more rational system.
They got some cool T-Shirts, but I am not sure what to think about the ‘Remember 84′ one !
http://www.rootsgear.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=1&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=60&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=40
Well NONAME, it’s about 1984, when thousands of Sikhs were murdered in genocidal pogroms across Delhi and UP after the assasination of Indira Gandhi organised by cadres of Congress Party workers. Thousands of women raped, boys and girls and men and women burnt to death, dismembered, Gurdwaras and homes burnt to the ground. And nobody has been held to account, or imprisoned for these crimes — in fact, the organisers of them are still wielding power. So in the absence of justice, and in memory of those murdered in these events, what confuses you about urging remembrance of this?
Ruby - Yes do remember 84 and bring to justice those guilty.
But what exactly are you trying to remember here? The innocent victims? Or the people that did this and the barbaric set of events? And what message are you trying to send across?
I want to forget 84, because each time i think of it, it makes me hate every hindu on the planet. Like wise I want to forget 1992 (babri masjid) beacuse each time I think of it, it makes me hate every hindu on the planet. Hate only creates more hate. And the last thing I want people to remeber is the hatred. Hope you get my drift here - this is how communal riots are incited.
84 is a tradegy that should never have happened. So remember and pay tribute, but this t-shirt, to me at least, seems to suggest a little more than just pure tribute.