Farhad Khan has lived in Middlebury for most of his 30 years in the state.
The number of such incidents has gone up in recent years, he said, especially since Donald Trump’s election.
“Just like the U.S., Vermont likes to think it’s exceptional,” said Mia Schultz, a Black Vermonter and the president of the Rutland-area N.A.A.C.P., who is not Muslim.
But the thing is, people of color are not.”I brought up the state’s enormous white population as a demographic curiosity when she stopped me.
Vermont’s problem is not in recruiting people of color, she said, but in retaining them.
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