In celebration of its tenth anniversary this year, the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) invites you to TAKE ON HATE and participate in a multi-year campaign to eliminate discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans.
Announced yesterday at a press conference in Washington, DC, the initiative is a powerful response to what NNAAC Director Nadia Tonova calls America’s “accepted bigotry” against an integral part of its society. Discrimination against Arabs and Muslims is “still happening,” “it’s still wrong,” and NNAAC is doing something about it.
TAKE ON HATE aims not only to alter public perception and right the wrongs of persistent misrepresentation, it also hopes to centralize Arab American voices and inspire change on the level of state and federal policy. It calls on all of us to make a difference through individual and community activism.
For more information on how it hopes to accomplish these goals, check out TAKE ON HATE’s official website, and be sure to take on Twitter and Facebook as well.
I was born and raised in the United Arab Emirates, and moved to the United States for my final year in High School, I am fluent in arabic and hold my culture and heritage very dearly.