Twitter hashtag to fight racial attacks in US
Sunday, 13/09/2015
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NEW YORK: An Indian American woman has created #AfterSeptember11 on microblogging site Twitter to speak up against the racial attacks Indians have been facing in the US after the September 11 terror attacks.
The hashtag was created by Jessica Talwar, a 19-year-old political science student from Loyola University in Chicago who tweets as @jesstalwar, says a report in the Los Angeles Times. The #AfterSeptember11 began trending since September 10 night -- the day it was created -with over 50,000 victims telling their stories using it. The victims said they were targeted for being Muslim - or often, just for having brown skin.
Many of the victims were children during the attacks on the Trade Towers but their tweets reflect the impact of the racial abuse on their young lives. One said her father shaved his face and stopped wearing a turban after he was assaulted at work.
