As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dr | dG1fMTV4LVZ2WERxZk0
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00:00You ever think about how random life is?
00:09Of all the people, why were you born to your parents?
00:12Of all the places, why were you born in your country, in your city?
00:17My girlfriend and I, our parents came to Toronto in the 60s, a new country, a new life.
00:23Why would someone work so hard to come to a new world, just to keep on living in the old one?
00:30I took a job in Detroit. I'll be moving there in two weeks.
00:34You take too much pride in your work.
00:35Yeah, well someone has to.
00:37Didn't I have to say in this?
00:39Look, I had to take it. I'll be setting the standard for transplant care for the next ten years.
00:43Do you always work this late, or are you just trying to make a good impression?
00:46If we can get this guy to fund our research, we'll have the best transplant program in the world.
00:50And the board would have no choice but to name a new chief.
00:53Can I ask you a stupid question?
00:55What do I look like under this thing?
00:56My father would say that our hair grows for a reason.
00:59We may not know what that reason is, but we should trust in God's plans.
01:02So you've never cut it?
01:04No.
01:08Come on, at least be honest with me.
01:10Will the board accept a guy with a turban as the face of the program?
01:12Sometimes it's about the bigger picture.
01:17We keep our hair because it is an article of faith to announce to the world
01:21I have chosen to live by certain values, and I will stand by them, even if I have to give up my life.
01:30Why did you do this? It's been a part of you your whole life.
01:33I'm not here to make a statement. I'm here to help people.
01:37I'm dying, correct?
01:39Transplant's your only option.
01:40And if I can't pay for it?
01:42You won't even get on the list.
01:43You have got to learn to bend a little.
01:45You don't think I've learned that?
01:46Ever since you've been in Detroit, things have been different.
01:48I don't know if you met somebody else.
01:50It's nothing like that.
01:54You have no idea about our relationship.
01:55You know what? You're right. I don't.
01:56In the real world, you have to make compromises.
01:58These are the things you have to do in the real world.
02:09I don't fear death. I fear the death of my conscience.
02:20I don't fear the death of my conscience.