Rais Bhuiyan was seriously wounded at Buckner Food Mart after a white supremacist shot him in the wake of 9/11. Bhuiyan forgave the attacker, Mark Stroman, and even tried to stall his execution for killing two other South Asian shopkeepers. NY Times columnist Anand Giridharadas tells Think host Krys Boyd what he learned about the real meaning of patriotism and grace while writing his book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas at noon.
Learn what Bhuiyan hoped to achieve by reaching out to the man who hurt him in the Dallas Morning News Q&A withGiridharadas that appeared in Sunday's paper.
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