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President Obama on Sikh Attack |
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Written by Don Byrd
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Monday, 06 August 2012 |
President Obama today called on the Flag of the United States to be flown at half mast through August 10 to honor the Sikh Americans killed by a hateful gunman yesterday. In a statement at the White House, he called on the unity of the American people.
"If it turns out, as some early reports indicate, that it may have been
motivated in some way by the ethnicity of those who were attending the
temple," he said, "I think the American people immediately recoil
against those kinds of attitudes, and I think it will be very important
for us to reaffirm once again that, in this country, regardless of what
we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people,
and we look after one another and we respect one another."
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