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Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Being Muslim at the wrong time in America
"Post 9/11, America has declared war on Islam with the FBI in the lead at home. It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms. Justice is nearly always denied. At times wilful killings are committed. The Detroit Muslims are their latest victims."
'I am not White': for many light-skinned Blacks, identity is more than skin deep | Ebony | Find Articles at BNET
"It was one of countless incidents in which Lowder, now 33, was mistaken for being White. 'I've been pulled over with my boyfriends because I looked like a little teenage White girl in a car with a Black man,' says Lowder, who is the fairest of her siblings. The reaction she gets from White Americans who discover that she's Black and biracial ranges from intense anger to firecracker curiosity. 'I become the great interpreter,' says Lowder, who is flooded with questions. 'Why do Black people steal? Can Black people tan? Why are the bottoms of their hands and feet pink?' she's been asked. 'But if I tell a Black person about my White father, they don't ask me to explain White people to them.' "
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