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EveryBudi Community: Englewood, Illinois - 2015.




I came to the USA again after selling everything I had in Malaysia.
I was asked to leave my sister’s home - I had been there several months already.

Fair enough.

I wanted to help some friends I had met while working at the food pantry. I wanted to empower the community - not pedal dogma.

I took some pictures and formulated some plans and was surprised to find my car window shattered and everything of value removed while visiting a ‘friend’.
I learned that it didn’t matter that I had a car clearly marked as a community project.

I learned a big lesson: No matter what you do, you can be the object of racial prejudice.

It was dangerous to be there.

I put my tail between my legs and scurried back to safer grounds in the north - or so I thought.