America
Sikh boy in US shares footage of racist classmates
New York, March 2
A shocking video of a bunch
of school kids abusing a Sikh boy in the US state of Georgia was
uploaded on video-sharing website YouTube and is going viral.
The
video, which was uploaded on Sunday by a user named "Nagra Nagra",
claims that the Sikh boy being bullied is named Harsukh Singh and is a
student at the Chattahoochee Elementary School in Duluth, Georgia, The
Inquisitr news portal reported.
The video, which was originally
uploaded by Harsukh, has been now made private. The video that is now
going viral has been downloaded and re-uploaded by another user.
In the video, Harsukh remains very calm and composed, even as his schoolmates continue taunting him.
At one point though, he does abuse them.
One
of the kids is also heard threatening Harsukh when he figures that
their act is being recorded. A girl on the bus is seen yelling
“Terrorist! Terrorist!†at the boy.
The uploader claims that
Harsukh had initially uploaded the video with the following description:
“Kids being racist to me and calling me an Afghan terrorist. Please
don’t act like this towards people like me. If you don’t know, I’m not
Muslim, I’m Sikh.â€
The video has over 130,000 views.