How do I feel as a Sikh in America? I feel very comfortable more than before, when I came in America. Kids used to ask me, “why are you wearing that thing on your head”?

I didn’t know how to speak English, so I didn’t say anything. Now I know English, and I could tell them why I am wearing it. I used to get into lots of fights and I won all the time. This is how I became popular in school. Last year I beat a kid up because he made fun of me in front of lots of kids. I told him don’t bother me. He didn’t stop, so I felt a lot of anger inside me. I couldn’t stop. So I just kept beating him up. When I came to school the next day he apologized to me and said “I won’t make fun of you anymore, would you be my friend”? Now he is my best friend.

In school, I do really good. When I came to America, I didn’t know how to speak English, so, I failed two times in third grade. Now I am trying really hard in school to pass the 7th grade. I have just one subject that I have trouble in, it is Science.

Tam not good in Science, because my science teacher gives me hard definitions on the test. I got them right but the spelling of them were not correct, so he marked them wrong.

Now when I have a Science test, I usually study how to spell the definitions right. My vocabulary is really good but my spelling of the words are not usually correct,

I failed science this grading period but I will try a lot harder in the next grading period. My father was disappointed in me because I have passed every other subject except science. I am a good student in class and the teachers and students are nice to me.

One time, my teacher asked me about my religion because we were studying about India, I told her that Sikh people believe in only one God and everything else I knew. I also told her how the Sikh’s are discriminated by the government of India. Everybody understood what T was trying to say. They felt what I was feeling in my mind. Sikh children in America usually get involved by the things that are happening to Sikhs in India. They feel what I feel.

I feel we should fight the government by getting armed. Everybody in a Sikh family and’ those Sikh families in India should have guns. Whenever a officer tries to kill somebody, everybody should surround the officers and then kill them. I would especially like it if all Sikhs would work together, by helping each other and. follow the Sikh religion as it is written in “Sri Guru Granath Sahb Ji”.

When Beant and Satwant Singh died, I felt sad but I also felt that they were brave to die as they were put into a8 by 8 foot prison for four years. The government also, didn’t give the dead bodies to their families. I felt that the government is Communist instead of a Democratic society.

I miss my uncles and aunts in Punjab especially my Cousin. It has been six years since I last saw him. He is four days older than] am. When we were little we played together, went to school, and sometimes slept together. He is like an older brother to me, now usually mail a letter to him and he mails one back to me. He will probably come to America in about 3 years. I can’t wait until he comes to America because I want to show him Tots of things. I want to go to Punjab because I want to see where I grew up, my school, and my old friends. I won’t Recognize anything now but I will try to remember everything.

I used to wonder why my father came to America. Now I know why my father came to America. He got a good job here and he wanted us to have & good education I like America, now because I got used to it ere.

Article extracted from this publication >>  August 25, 1989