Charlottesville has this unique sort of fact about itself that it had a Sikh mayor. First turbaned and bearded mayor in America. So I thought that was really cool.
People are copying my tattoos. People tie their turban the way I tie it. And you're like, OK, well, there's a responsibility here now.
What remains invisible beneath the surface is what it feels like to live in a climate of hate and fear. She dons a turban with a sword in her hand, with fire in her eyes, she leads them back into the flames when no one else would.
Hinduism and yoga. And it symbolizes self-sacrifice. And the turban comes in handy in case a real religious fanatic throws something at me to protect my head. So that's a little bit about why I'm dressed like this.
What gave me away?" "The arriving in a puff of smoke," she said. "And you look like a genie. You've got the turban and the pointy shoes. " I folded my arms and blinked. Now I was wearing blue jeans, gray sneakers, and a faded gray sweater-- the male uniform of this time and this place.
free CU my interpreter was standing over there cowering my two untie the turban and I'm happy I'm not alone I see my interpreter I see my two body guards
free CU my interpreter was standing over there cowering my two it started with the turban and now I'm in a situation where I may have to kill
Then a procession of men, 20 abreast and filling the road, came into view. They wore turbans , and blazers, and sandals, and wristwatches that glinted in the sunlight, row after unsmiling row. The procession swept by and through us and we fell in among them, following the surging crowd through the village until we came
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. And she has amazing braids and a turban and she's clearly a woman at the top of her game in that.
So for the first time in 10 years, August 2001-- by this time I'm living in Westchester County just north of New York City. And so I don this turban , and we all know what happened a month later. 9/11 happened. So I saw the towers come down on the big screen in a cafeteria at work, and within hours I had coworkers
They didn't know that. So I ended up wearing the stupid turban .
They didn't know that. So I got away from wearing the turban , and thank god.
He was one of the first early pioneers from South Asia. He was a Sikh American wearing a turban and beard. And immigration officials saw him on Angel Island and immediately incarcerated him.
inate sorry I I must have dozed off I brought your mail from the University Disguise look close behind the turban and the veil she's wearing a
He who will not cut his hair. He will always wear a turban . And he who carries a sword.
And I'll never forget this, because Dr. Khurana is of the Sikh religion, so he wears a turban . And he said he saw his turban , and he goes, oh, that's the guy. And he grabbed him.
Or I can lay down and gain a perspective that gives it a little more subject to work with. I had to wear a turban .
Or I can lay down and gain a perspective that gives it a little more subject to work with. The reason I had to wear a turban was the camels.
coming towards me from union station towards capitol hill and there were in amongst this there were four black dressed african women with flaming orange turbans and the four of them were coming charging down the road shouting obama obama obama and i said where are you
So moving fast-forward, this is me. And obviously you see that I don't have my turban here. So when I came back to the US-- the land of my birth, my homeland, however you want to put it-- I came to Los Angeles first.
And that federation decided they were going to pass a rule. If you are a kid who has a turban on his head, you cannot play soccer. The reason was, you are a danger to yourself and other kids.
And the current president is releasing an onslaught of executive orders that punish our people. I'm raising a brown boy who may someday wear a turban as part of his faith in a country that is more dangerous than the one that I was given, even more dangerous than the one that my grandfather arrived in a century ago.
But actually, I thought, well, Ben, that's why you're here. and I saw Sir Ben in his beautiful turban .
And I was intrigued. Who is this person in orange with the turban ? I need to talk to him and find out.
Or I can lay down and gain a perspective that gives it a little more subject to work with. Why do you think I had to wear a turban .
So for me, it's like the overarching theme I'm always encouraging and trying to shove down everybody's throat is not look like me, act like me, dress like me. And even the men that have these beautiful turbans and full beards, you don't look like them either.
So reaching out to Arno and hearing his voice, and just the first time talking, we decided to sit down and then really just conversate, And dude's got this really-- he's got this beautiful tied silk turban on, and he's got this beautiful really expensive looking silk suit.
White men, brown meant, Sikh men don't get shot by cops. All right. So Captain America in a turban and a beard.
White men, brown meant, Sikh men don't get shot by cops. And I envisioned a Captain America who's going to find hidden bias in a turban and beard.
They didn't know that. Here's your pants. Here's your turban .
They didn't know that. Because I think to the uncle, the turban meant-- like, the viewers can watch and be like, oh, that's the bad guy.
Paris her mother dressed in a blue velour jumpsuit with a red turban wrapped around her head fluttered between the f fogged window next to the
They didn't know that. I go, Indian Sikhs wear turbans .
So for me, it's like the overarching theme I'm always encouraging and trying to shove down everybody's throat is not look like me, act like me, dress like me. I know it sounds absurd." And just hearing those lines and then seeing this cool rapper wearing a turban in his music videos with five half-naked
He actually made CNN. He was on news, having been arrested because-- just he had a turban and a beard. So that label-- being brown, but especially with a turban and beard-- became the "ultimate other" label in America.
He was on news, having been arrested because-- just he had a turban and a beard. So that label-- being brown, but especially with a turban and beard-- became the "ultimate other" label in America. And in some ways it still is.
White men, brown meant, Sikh men don't get shot by cops. The first Captain America movie had come out, and I drew him in turban and beard, in case you have not figured that out already.
White men, brown meant, Sikh men don't get shot by cops. Hispanic, maybe. Turban and beard, no.
They didn't know that. And they were like, no, that's the turban .
They didn't know that. I go, hey. I'm excited about the turban and the thing.
They didn't know that. You'll be fine. Don't worry about the turban .
border where he was killed everyone said don't go no journalists goes there the only people who've gone there are the military for the first time since the early 1980s I put on a turban I let my hair grow began to grow a beard I wore Afghan clothes or up in the mountains and I said wait a minute I was here in 1981 I've walked through
wear black turb today the man Rose over the rock came running with his rocket propelled grenade launcher about a dozen in spread out running down the mountain in the lead I knew it was the leader man in a black turban with his walkie-talkie and part of me said good Commander's in the lead I'm dead it's
free CU my interpreter was standing over there cowering my two towards the United States I thought of my family and I waited and slowly they wrapped the turban around me and
residency at UCSF, and the other guy was a cardiologist who was sheik and had a turban .
So they were like, "We'll take the guy without the turban ." And I ended up taking care of this kid, which was fairly straightforward -- had mostly to
They didn't know that. And you know, Afghans in America don't wear turbans .
All these young guys with long beards and big, big turbans , they're all sitting like this.
was always talking about that. If you read any of the writings in the hymns in Sikh scriptures, there's no talk about growing your beard or wearing a turban . This is a lot more heritage and cultural.
Because fundamentalism is people who find comfort in the past. And people are like, hey, this is what a guy with a beard and turban is supposed to do. You're not looking like that.