this is an american farm. this is as american as billionaires paying no taxes, japanese pickup trucks with confederate flags and women who will never do yoga. this american farm has been owned by an a american family for four generations. let's meet this american family who owns this american farm. not what you're expecting, huh? that's right. this week on united shades of america we're seeking out some sikhs, learning all about the

sikh religion. >> it's pronounced sick. >> i got a lot to learn. my name is w. kamau bell. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and believes that add color to this crazy country. this is "united shades of america." >> i have said all along that america is based on few djewdey

christian believes. america was not founded as a crestion country. the only constitutional mention is freedom of religion. it's christianity that's everywhere, even on the money. notice it doesn't say in gods we trust. knowledge of most other religions in america are somewhere between kind of understood to gleefully misunderstood. [ chanting ] >> and then there are six. also known as sikhs, but more and more wanting to be called sikhs. >> yeah, even their name is misunderstood.

so let's see what happened when i show people on the streets a picture of a sikh. do you have any idea what this guy might be? >> ah. >> muslim? >> a lot of people say muslim. >> satan. >> i thought you were going to say something else. >> satan, is that even a religion? so little is understood about the sikh religion that many people assume that they are members of other religions, and with a look like this, guess which religion is most popular for people to associate them with. >> sikhs have been targeted now repeatedly. >> the man responsible for shooting a sikh man in his driveway is still on the run. >> this month's attack on two sikh men shot while walking along a street in oak grove. >> the gunman allegedly told the victim to go back to your country. >> a crime of hate. >> since 9/11, anti-muslim hate crimes, which shouldn't happen in the first place, have more and more been committed against sikhs. yeah, in america we can't even get our hate straight.

in order to turn misunderstanding into understanding a man named ha hartpreet singh reached out to me. i reached out to make an entire episode from twitter. and now i'm on the streets of boston with heartpreet thank youfully before it's wicked cold. so first of all thank you for reaching out to me on twitter. >> thank you for responding. >> no problem. i'm pretty active on twitter. what made you decide to reach out to me? communities have their fair of hate, and i thought this would be an excellent venue for people to learn about the sikhs. >> in america christianity is

pretty much understood by everybody, even people who aren't christians. even my jewish friends get the major holidays. there's god, there's jesus. so how would you describe your faith? >> so i would sikhism is a religion of love. and this love requires sacrifice for others especially the oppressed, the downtrodden. so for example, you know, we had sikhs showing up in war torn syria providing humanitarian aid. you've got sikhs showing up in hai haiti. and katrina and others. >> my question is why don't more people know that? >> the community has been around but it occupies a disproportionate space.

>> knowing the textbooks in some states that sentence is probably something like they're like a muslim or something. well, here's the textbook should say. the sikh was born around 1400 in the punjab area of what's now pakistan. fed up with war a man named nanuk went on a spiritual journey and one god, self-less service and unconditional love for one another. anuk became the first gureue. it became the fifth largest religion in the world.

and for the record, gureue actually means spiritual leader. can you talk to me about the turbine and the expression of your religion are? >> we call them karas. this reminds us to have clean and tidy hair, and then there are undershorts we wear. so it requires monogamy no matter through a relationship and chastity. >> so if you pull-down your pants and you're in the wrong situation you're trying to go wait a minute, hold on a second, i think i got to go. probably not as spiritual but it's the i think about it. >> the turbin symbolizes

sovereignty. then the most important of them what we put on our hair. women wear the exact same articles of faith. and unfortunately for americans there is only one way of thinking about what an american looks like. and especially when you've got a beard and a turbin, you don't fit that stereo type of an american, right? these are things we're trying to dismantle by it through education and things like that. >> i've read about things like that. it's hard to just say we aren't muslims, judge us by who we are. we also happen not to be the think you think we are. >> right after 9/11 we made a

decision as a community. that really means don't attack us but it's okay to attack them. >> that all sounds good but let's see how it plays out in real life. this viral clip from last year features canadian politician singh. watch what he does when this woman automatically assumes. >> we support you and we love you. >> most christians when contrnted licontrn confronted like that tend to turn the other cheek. thank you for reaching out to me. although the problem is now everybody is going to be reaching out to me on twitter saying you didn't do a show about me. so you may have set a troublesome precedent for me.

so thank you. h hartpreet brought a lot to my attention. did i meet your dad? >> yeah. >> what grade are you in? >> i'm in fifth grade. do you go to a school with all sikhs or all different religions? >> there's only one other sikh. >> so do kids make fun of you because of your religion or because you cover your hair? >> i had some issues like that last year because i moved to a new school. a kid would make fun of me for having long hair. >> so when the kids were bothering you never thought i should go home and take this off and get a haircut and try to blend in? >> i actually think i'm lucky to be a sikh and i'm happy. >> nice, nice. that's well said. that's definitely going to be on

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♪ i'm in yum yuba city, california. jealous other travel show hosts. juba city is the sikh capital of the united states. sikh americans comprise around 22% of the area as 66,000 peep. originally from the punjab state of india, they started emigrating in the early 1,900s.

today the presence is so strong that in 2017 this happened. >> a roaring applause for yuba city's new mayor. he makes history as the first american sikh woman to be named mayor. >> to get a better understanding of this town, talking with her seems a great place to start. >> what was the reaction when the story goes out america's first female sikh mayor is elected. what was that like for you. >> you know, i never expected it to be even that big. so it was like, you know, starting to receive the phone calls, all of a sudden the newspaper articles and my daughter just, mom, did you hear this? did you read this? so, yeah, just absolutely in shock, you know. >> what brought your parents to

america in the first place originally. >> to have a better life, the american greem dream. >> and why yuba city. >> the culture. >> you'll see a large inyan community in farming is common innia we can farm here. >> yeah. >> i live in the bay area i've never been to yuba city. and also had not heard there was a huge sikh population. >> yeah. >> we just live in our silos. >> the mayor said i'm not dumb so i feel pretty good. can you talk about the sikh religion? what's it like to be a woman in that religion. >> i may not look like a typical sikh woman but i'm 100% sikh. under god we are all equal. that's what sikhism is, men, women, it doesn't matter. but i say we need to walk the talk. even during my election and my

mom was knocking on doors and handing out pamphlets. and she was being asked why is your daughter doing this? this is a man's world? and my mom said, well why do we educate our daughters then? if this is what she wants to do i'm going to stand by her. >> for those members of the sikh community saying this. >> yes. >> in that sense what you say about the sikh faith is a lot of times what happens with christianity. what the bible says versus the practitioners of christianity do are often quite far apart. yeah. >> and i think most important part is that we talk about it and have conversation and bring awareness. if y keep quiet about it you'll never get the future generations to move forward, let alone the current ones so. >> yes, certainly as a political leader, as a person of faith, as a woman of color, as a woman, you know, i'm excited what happens after you're the mayor of the city. i'd like for california to get you, and the rest of the country and maybe even the world.

>> yes. >> as a william, i'm excited about what happens after mayor of yuba step. i would like the rest of california to get you and then maybe the rest of the world. and the galaxy we'll keep moving forward. >> we need more of you too. >> i don't want anybody else to have this job. i got a lot of kids. thank you very much though. >> thank you. thank you. a perfect example of thing a cultural condition is the farm run by karms, who is giving me a tour of the almond orchard. that's right things are about to get wait for it -- nuts. hashtag dad joke. >> lots of times we hear about farming and hear how hard it is to be a farmer, but we don't exactly picture a person like you. >> not somebody who is good looking. >> that's right. that's what i'm saying. >> there is a lot of work goes into it. we're here for four generations and going strong. we acquired the property 42 years ago. our family grows peaches, prunes, walnuts and almonds. >> you speak spanish. >> yes. >> did you grow up speaking

spanish? >> i did. raised on a farm, predominately indians and the hispanic and mexican people in order to communicate, and some of the folks that came to the country earlier married hispanic or mexican women for the opportunity to acquire land. >> yeah. >> marrying mexican women to acquire land, what kind of turn of the century reality game show is this? even though the sikhs worked in land.nted them from owning their and america's jim crle ow sty immigration laws kept them from bringing wives from india. and at the same time, the mexican revolution led mexican women to california. and because of racism and misogyny these womens opportunities were in the fields next to the sikh men. like the old saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt or marriage and babies. luckily the babies grow up as

american citizens who can own the land that their parents couldn't. god bless america. what's this coming towards us? >> that's the shaker that will go through and clamp the stump of a tree. high rpms will shake the tree and knock the almonds off the tree. >> looks like something from "mad max." i would like one of those for my own personal self so i could drive up to people and don't like and just be like -- >> the next part of the process will be we sweep them up and the tractor with the harvest will pick them up. >> can i drive the tractor? >> absolutely. >> good. people think i don't work hard. with almonds at almost $10 a pound this is my opportunity to get this money.

♪ ♪ >> hey you're a fourth generation american, you speak spanish which is basically america's second language. you own a farm, which is like, that makes you one of the most american americans you can be if you own a farm. >> i think i bleed red white and blue. one of the most patriotic people you can be. i live out living a dream and hopefully can pass it on to the

next generation. >> if what he said sounds strange to you then unfocus your eyes and imagine his turbin isn't a coy boy hat? better now? >> his father is also proud of who he is. see his dad started an annual sikh parade here in yuba city. that parade is famous worldwide. >> talk about how the parade got started. >> with god's grace we're looking forward to the 38th annual sikh parade. and well over 1,000 people in attendance. we have open house. >> i'll be there. >> hope to see you there. >> thank you very much. now i have a few almonds to take home. >> sure. >> can you drive that truck to berkeley and i'll give you the address. drive it out to berkeley and we'll figure out something to do. >> put them in the backyard. >> yeah.

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man, i had 12 things to ask. before i go in i was told i had to cover my hair, which is customary. after it was over i had to send home for the industrial strength afro pick. so nappy. let's talk turbans. >> let's talk turbans. whenever i meet somebody and i approach them the first time their eyes inevitably go up here. i'm like my eyes are down here. you know they think about it as we engage in whatever we are doing. the turban isn't a cultural dress going back centuries and even thousands of years even. what makes it unique is that it's a religious article. it's not cultural. it's something we wear as a practice of faith. something that reminds us of our duty to defend those who might need help. so by design it's supposed to help people recognize us in a crowd. >> i didn't realize that. if i'm in trouble and i see a

sikh around i'm like help me. >> you're supposed to help me stop walking you're supposed to help me. >> that's my new 911. help me, sikh. how come women don't wear it as much? >> the turban has traditionally been for men. we find many more women are starting to wear the turban in female styles in a manner of claiming empowerment. if men with wearing it we're wearing it as well. >> is there are there different types much sportiers. >> people can wear the colors they like. but those aren't religiously dictated but cultural. >> et cetera not like the black belt system in karate. >> there is no formal ranking. that's an interesting concept actually. >> i'm thinking outside the box. >> you should patent that. >> let's give it a shot. i'm ready to be turbanned. is that a word?

>> you'll get turbanified. this is how much fabric goes into a turban. it's not extra long because of my giant head. i asked that question specifically. >> all right, kamau this is your >> it made me feel more like nick canon and i don't need those mariah problem. ma most americans don't know they actually do know who sikhs are. sikhs are represented throughout the media. lily sing. jasmine kari and best selling poet rupicarr. and juarez. he started starred in many hollywood films.

but he has also been in spike lee's inside man. starring the greatest actor of all time period denzel washington. >> he agreed to sit down with me and talk about sikh mans in the arts. what's that like to be an actor in hooud? >> let me paint it in a way one might be able to understand. i'm black in the 50s. i can't tell you the number of meetings i've had with agents they were like -- and this? this stays? i go this stays, this goes no where. >> are we keeping that. >> i grew up in brooklyn. i see myself as american. i'm the guy next door. i can play that part, right. i played that part in life. >> you've been the guy next door. >> i've been the guy next door. i've been the love interest. i've been the heart break interest. once i got a call for a film. the part wasn't lake sikh man comes out of bank. it was larry comes out of bank.

it was -- so they're not looking for sikh actors. what we need is sikh directors, sikh writers and sikh producers to tell our own story. >> there is the thing about just like hoping the people who are currently in power just expand their idea of who they could be. you know what i'm saying? larry is the star and they go it doesn't have to be a regular larry. it could be juarez. >> this is where i look at the camera and say it could be jaurez. >> when we first started talking about the episodes it wasn't

familiar with your name until they said he was the inside man. >> because i was about to walk off the show. >> i feel lucky to be given that opportunity. >> do you ever get push back how you're living your life out in public as a sikh? >> it's been a responsibility, but i feel like the thing that happens with a lot of minorities is the victimization role, and they were taking the role of victim. i'm not -- i'm not a victim. >> yeah. >> you can punch me in the face. and i've been assaulted, and we can talk about that. but i'm still not a victim. i'm a new yorker. i don't know if you got that. >> yeah, yeah. you new yorkers are so subtle with that. so you mentioned you've been assaulted. can you talk about that a little bit? >> six months after 9/11 joe's pizza, bleaker street, 4:00 a.m.

this guy that's built like a mat truck, huge starts to say 4:00 a.m. thinks you're a perfect target and sucker punches me in the face and i nearly lost vision. to the right to this day my vision is like this. so am i going to be angry, upset? >> yes. >> i don't want to go through lifelike that. i'm going through life celebrating it. >> you're certainly more involved than i am. i'm more of a blamer. i practice the ridgep of it's that guy's fault. >> fear, hate, the human condition it reminds me of a great quote i learned going to sikh camp. fear none, respect all.

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since i've been in yuba city, california, i've learned a lot about the sikh culture. but i ain't done yet. and the perfect place to get my

learn on is the becoming american museum, which highlights the rich history of sikh immigration into california. i'm here to meet with lawyer, activist and award winning filmmaker valerie carr. do her a favor and watch her films. >> we're talking about what this means to you. >> that's my history on that wall. my grandfather sailed by steam ship from india to california in 1913, and so he looked just like this when he arrived on the shores of california. we have been so invisible for so long and that just to have a wall telling the history, that alone is life-giving to us. >> yeah. yeah. there is a duality of invisible but also highly visible. >> yes. >> when you're visible you're still not seen as sikhs. >> yes. what happened after 9/11 was a new racial category was formed in the united states. and that category is in muslim

terrorist. who is in that category? there are muslims, brown muslims, south asian hindus. christian arabs, sikh was turban was brown, white sikhs. the category is huge. >> valerie is right. despite a steady decline since 9/11 things are getting bad. hate criminals in the u.s. has risen since 2014. >> the first person killed in a hate crime after september 11th was a sikh man standing in front of his gas station in phoenix, arizona. he was a family friend. i called him uncle. and the man when he was arrested called himself patriot. he was the first of dozens of people killed in the aftermath of 9/11. on the 15-year anniversary, i arrived at the gas station where he was killed and so i set down candles in the spot he bled to death.

and his brother turned to me and i could see the same sorrow in his eyes and he says nothing has changed. and so the next day we -- we called the murderer in prison. and i remember the phone is ringing and my heart is beating in my ears. and i hear the voice of franke roch why i ask him. >> and he says i'm sorry for what happened to your family. i'm also sorry for all those killed on 9/11. ronnena responds and says this is the first time i'm hearing you say you feel sorry. and then frank says, yes i'm sorry for what i did to your brother. one day when i go to heaven to be judged by god i will ask to see your brother. and i will hug him and i will ask for forgiveness. and rhona says, we already forgive you.

>> wow! >> forgiveness is not forgetting. forgiveness is freedom from hate. >> what is it about the sikh faith that seems to be, like, woven into the fabric of the faith? there is certainly a bigger, clearer message about inclusion and equality that i don't necessarily hear from the christianity i grew up in. >> the sikh faith is a faith about love. i see no stranger, i see no enemy. and the thing is stereotypes are embedded in our nation's imagination. we have been wired to see black criminal, brown illegal, transimmoral, women property, turban-wearing muslims, terrorists. it's just the air that we are breathing. and we can't help -- they're in the air. we can't help but absorb them even if we don't endorse. >> i recognize it in myself when i see specifically a man in a turban that i think foreign. >> yes. >> hearing the question how long

have you lived in america? nope, nope, nope don't say that. don't say that. you know, i can feel myself like have to click that button off in my head. >> i can train my eyes to look upon the faces of all strangers i see on the street, on the subway, on the screen and say in my mind, sister, brother, and if we can begin to see strangers as sisters and brothers then we are more likely to step into the fire when they need us. so brother, you are in the battle with me. >> i should -- i brought cameras. >> that's what i need. >> and a witty sense of humor. paul? i switched to sprint from verizon because of you. smart move. yeah i got this new lg v30+ with cinema quality video so instead of around 40 bucks a month, i got it for just 12 bucks a month. and...cut! that's a wrap! uh...wrap on what? (fan) paul! it's paul from "paul: the movie!" already seeing a sequel! gonna be huge. meet your co-star. (paul) what are you doing here? (robot) we're going to hollywood, baby. (vo) for a limited time, switch to sprint and lease

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a major part of the sikh religion is taking action against injustice. this leads many sikhs in america to join the armed forces, but lieutenant colonel his experience led him to fight for his turban as well as his country. another minority doing twice the work but getting paid once. i heard from people that

military service is part of a being a sikh. >> correct. our tenth profit said that, you know what, it's not enough to just be a saint, sit home and pray to god. you have to get out, get involved. you have to fight injustice. they taught us to be saint soldiers. so it's natural that when sikhs come to the united states they'd want to continue that tradition. sikhs in the u.s. have served honorably since at least the early 1900s. they served in world war i and ii, korea and vietnam. that's a lot of blood sweat and tears and the turbans and beards were never a problem. >> they served with the turban and beard. >> you don't want the hair all willy-nilly. it's tidied uptight and wrapped

up. >> that a quote from the religious text, willy-nilly? >> i'm not sure. i'd have to look it up. >> the book says thou shalt not let the hair be willy-nilly. >> could be. could be. >> naturally when the army recruiter came to me the first year of medical school and said would you like to join i said yeah, love to join. you know. but i come like this. you know with turban and beard. he said, yeah, yeah we have -- we have sikhs in the army. it's no problem. about 2008 they said actually we looked at the the regs you have to remove the turban and shade shave the beard. and i said respectfully, sir i can't do that. it took me a year and a half, nearly 50 congressional signatures on the letter to the secretary of defense gates at the time. 16,000 petitioners on a letter. a mammoth effort to get one guy in. >> so when you got the exemption it was just for you to wear the turban and the beard. it wasn't just for any sikh? >> yeah, correct. so i was the first religious accommodation in like a

generation. >> oh, wow. >> for anybody. not just sikhs. after i got my one-off accommodation, i deployed at the end of 2011 to a province in afghanistan. and we saw a lot of devastating injuries. >> i'm guessing none of the people you took care of when you walked in the room said i'm the doctor and said wait, you're wearing a turban and have a beard. >> no. >> nobody cares. come on. it took us almost ten years of effort. but we were able to get a policy change that now allows turbans and beards and hijabs, allows for yarmulkes and other religious expression. this is just a policy change for the army. but i was proud and really happy that we did it not just for sikhs, that we were able to advocate for muslims and jews, christian as well. if the largest employer in the

united states, that being the military, can tell you, look, your turban and beard are unprofessional, that's not the country we are. we're better than that. that's why it's so important to we're better than that. you take part in the political process, and that's the only way we can preserve this beautiful experiment that we call american. >> everything you say about how you feel as an american, you're clearly patriotic. you're in the military. we want people like you to be our future leaders, but those of us who are not sikhs need to figure out a way to get past our fear of the unknown and somehow turn that into helpful curiosity, which have a tradition in the military of giving points, old tradition. so i brought you one of my coins as sincere thanks. >> really? this is for me? >> that's for you. >> that's the sikh symbol. it's a circle represents unity and then three swords representing social justice and freedom. >> i'm honored have this.

thank you. also, i don't know where you pull this out of. i don't want to make it the creepy illusion that sikhs are magic. you just had it in your hand. >> i pulled it out of my pocket. >> thank you. >> any time. >> thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> the sikh identity is such a large part of their religion that they even have their own style of martial arts called gatka, which dates back to the 17th century. i'm about to get a lesson from a brother and sister, or i'm about to get schooled, depending on your perspective. hey! >> hey, how you doing? >> kamau. nice to meet you. >> we want to bring some viefrts weapons. anything you want to see first? >> i feel like i've never seen one of these in real life. i've only seen them in movies. it's a little heavier than i thought.

i've been having problems with this cameraman for quite a while. come here, randy, i need to talk to you. >> don't hit yourself. >> is there anything cool you say before you start, like in kung fu, it's wataaa! >> the battle drcry. >> did we just call the weapon-bearing sikhs in the area? >> you'll see them coming around out of the woodwork. this will be the front line. >> that's one of the coolest things i've ever seen. >> you're trying grab it. it's basically moving your arms, your hands, side to side. >> i'd like to say i did that on purpose. but i did not. that was great. thank you very much. >> "united shades of america" brought to the honda clarity plug-in.

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far with one common goal, and that is just to pay respects to the scripture. so hopefully you enjoy and just kind of take it all in. >> it's a lot to take in. >> oh, it is. >> but i can't just roll out into the parade. in order to respect the religion, again, i need to cover my hair. so what do you like about this? >> i just love the way we're showing the community who we are, and showing that we're all about brotherhood and love and humanity. >> so is this your first time here? >> oh, no, we come every year. >> why do you come every year? >> because it's really toes lose touch of yourself and your roots and your heritage. and it's good to be reminded. >> tell me, what does it mean to be a sikh to you? >> it means to love everyone for who they are and just to be welcoming of other people. >> and that was the moment i met the sikhs of anarchy. what is going on? is this a motorcycle gang? >> no!

>> we love the wind. ♪ >> patrick, let's go get some food. ♪ >> like all great festivals, there is plenty of food. but here there is one key difference. >> it's all free. >> all free. 100% donations. 100% service. >> they're just handing out food. this is $20 worth of food in the bay area that they just gave me for free. >> now that i'm stuffed, it's time to walk it off in the parade procession. and boy, do we walk. >> that's the head priest. they're sing religious hymns on top of the main float, and they'll do that throughout the parade. so here comes the five beloved with the swords drawn. >> okay. >> what are the brooms? >> the scripture is coming, and

they're trying to clean up the path. that's why they're showering flowers. >> i mean, it's beautiful. it's like spiritual and determined at the same time, you know? with everything going, i kind of feel like i'm in the middle of a dream. i keep seeing things i'm not expecting to see. >> a shower of flowers. >> oh, yeah. >> when i left, i was still shocked that i hadn't heard of this parade before. but also i was a little bit afraid of what happens if too many non-sikhs do hear inter. as a nation, are we ready to handle so many people who look so different from how many of us define an american? are we really ready for a religion that has equity baked into it? are we ready to regularly and truly talk about love, peace and oneness outside of memes and beatle songs? on basic level, can we handle that much access to free food? i hope the rest of us can,

because the sikh is met in yuba city are ready, and that values they believe in match up well with what this country is supposed to believe in. are you ready? i know i am. i've already got my head scarf picked out for next year. warnings from the north korean regime to stop misleading public opinion. we will look at how this might impact the planned talks between the united states and north korea. plus president trump's newest attorney continues his media blitz. this time actually talking about the russia investigation. and later -- residents in hawaii face scenes like this. fountains of lava shooting up from the ground. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and those of you joining us from all around the world. great to have you with us. i'm