Passengers instinctively made room for a hijabi woman with an infant

Evidence

The bus was crowded in the front, so Yasmin stood in the back like a blade of grass in a forest of people, next to an elderly white couple holding on tightly to each other. As the bus continued down its route, people mounted and dismounted, and several blocks short of Taco Bell another Muslim woman boarded. Like Yasmin, she also wore a hijab, but she had a baby slung to her chest and a blanket covering her sleeping infant. People moved out of the way as the woman walked carefully up the crowded aisle. She stopped at an empty window seat halfway along the bus, and a man sitting in the aisle seat stood to let her in. She sat down quietly, and the bus engine droned on. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 324