Trump’s America is racist and there’s no doubt about it. Attacks on people of colour have become common and the Trump government is not batting an eyelid. We were still reeling under the shock of 31-year-old Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla being shot dead by a 51-year-old white American man in a racist attack. Hurling racial slurs at them, telling them to get out of his country, Adam Purinton opened fire at two techies, out of which one received a fatal shot. In his defence, he later said he mistook them to be Middle-Eastern. 

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And now, another Indian living in the US has fallen prey to a racist attack. The man’s house in Denver was trashed with dog poop and eggs, and hate messages scribbled across his walls. Reports say that at least 40 eggs were thrown at his house and around 50 strips of papers with racial slurs were found strewn around his house, including his car. The hate messages read something like 'You brown or Indian shouldn't be here’. 

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The FBI is looking into the case and it is believed that a group of people was involved in the hate crime. In stark contrast to the hateful messages and the ugly attack, the man’s neighbours turned up and cleaned the house, lessening some of the hurt. The Indian homeowner himself was more affected by the compassion than the hate, he said.

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While America remains divided into these two categories – racists like Adam Purinton and humanitarians like Ian Grillot, the man who took a bullet while trying to save the Indian techie – it is disturbing to see that neither the American government nor the American media has picked up the issue with the urgency it deserves. For that matter, why is the Indian government not fuming at the turn of events? If PM Modi can promptly respond to a tweet asking for his shawl, he sure can send a strong message to the country where his countrymen are being shot for being Indian.