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    For children of immigrants like me, 'go back' is a familiar racist taunt

    by Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times Jul 15, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - I had just published a story on Sikhs who'd been attacked after being mistaken for Muslims, when the email popped into my inbox.

    "Are you from Iran?" the stranger wrote. "If so, go back! God Bless America."

    By that point, two years ago, I had grown accustomed to the type of fan mail that questioned my loyalty to the country in which I was born, reduced my reporting to irrelevant writing by dismissing "my people" as the "scourge of the earth" or, in some cases, suggested that I shoot myself ("with a caliber no less than

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