A North Carolina college professor is going home to Canada because of racism directed at her Nicaraguan husband.
Robin Attas, assistant professor of music, will be leaving Elon University and moving back to Canada with her husband, Nicolás Narváez Soza, and their two children. Narváez Soza said he has endured acts of racism since the couple moved to North Carolina in 2013.
“I noticed that I was treated differently like at the post office or the pharmacy or even the grocery store,” Narváez Soza said. “I was lining up at the post office […] when it was my turn, the attitude changed completely. They became less respectful.”
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“He told me how he was standing on the front lawn with our two children and a pick-up truck drove by, and somebody threw a bottle out of the window and yelled ‘f***ing Mexican go home’ and then tore off,” Attas said.
A week later, the same situation happened at a playground. Narváez Soza believes that the last presidential election played a significant role in the attitudes of people.