25 years later: the 9/11 hate crime survivor who forgave the man who shot him | rais bhuiyan (re-release)

Podcast: Reppin · Evelien Kong

Opublikowano: 2026-09-07

**listener discretion is advised. twenty-five years ago, rais bhuiyan was shot in the face, ten days after 9/11, just because he looked different. i'm re-releasing this conversation for the 25th anniversary — him telling you what happened next, in his own words. rais came to america for the idea of it — the cowboys, the fairness, the wide-open promise of the whole thing. in the fear and anger after the attacks, people who looked like rais became targets. a man walked into his gas station, asked where he was from, and pulled the trigger. rais survived. a few othe...