Cambridge Public Library park: Unlikely scene of hatespeech. File photo by Harsh V.
My column Personal Political published in the Cambridge Chronicle, June 8, 2017
Beena Sarwar
“You don’t even speak English,” comes a male voice across the fading evening light.
We glance past Cambridge Public Library’s main entrance. The man is bending close to someone sitting on a bench on the other side. A couple of homeless guys slightly drunk, ribbing each other?
The voice breaks through the dusk again. “This is not your country. Why don’t you go back?”
I jump up and walk purposefully towards them, suppressing a reminder that I’m a small brown woman heading towards an unknown situation.
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