“I think most Americans do support civil rights,” Wahab told NBC News last month. It aims to clarify existing anti-discrimination law to ensure caste-oppressed individuals are protected. Aisha Wahab in March after years of efforts by civil rights groups to bring conversations about casteism to the fore in the U.S. Senate Bill 403 was introduced by state Sen. Though it’s now illegal on the subcontinent, its effects, including exclusion, economic suppression and overt violence, have remained in Indian communities all over the world. The caste system, a hierarchy of social stratification in India, has long been used to oppress those born into its lower classes. We want everything that any other community gets in California, and we want workplaces and educational institutions free from discrimination.’” “Everyone came to weigh in and turn pain into power,” Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit activist and the founder of the caste equity organization Equality Labs, told NBC News.
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