White "Neighbors" place Xenophobic, racist notes on Concord apartment where Bhutanese refugee family lives
/Two notes insulting immigrants and refugees who moved to Concord four months ago were left taped to the door of Bhakta Gurung and his family this week – one on Monday and one on Sunday – Gurung said today.
Gurung and his wife, Bishnu, and their two children moved to Concord four months ago from a refugee camp in Nepal, where they had been living since being exiled from Bhutan.
The notes were left taped to their door in an apartment building on Eastern Avenue. One was shorter and written in marker; the other filled an 8-by-11 white paper, and was written in pen.
They said, among other things, that the Gurung family members are “inconsiderate assholes” who receive everything for free.
The family cannot read English, and did not know what the notes said until a case worker from Lutheran Social Services visited today.
“He said it is not tolerable, and it is bad words you cannot digest,” Gurung said through an interpreter. “He explained it in my language, and I feel bad.”
