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On September 11, 2001, a week and a half after school started, I learned I was as far from home as I could be and still be within the United States. On September 12, I watched my Pakistani neighbors plaster their Corollas with I LOVE THE U.S.A. bumper stickers and dress their newborn in a red, white, and blue outfit I’d seen at Marshalls. I didn’t

These are gentrified, suited, slick operators such as Bill Maher, a popular HBO talk-show host whose show Real Time with Bill Maher has been running for seventeen years. Maher, who has called Islam “the motherlode of bad ideas” and suggested that “if Muslim men could get laid more, we wouldn’t have this problem,” dedicates far more time alleging

At the high school level, a Latino studies program in at least one district (Tucson, Arizona) drew the ire of state officials, who enacted a ban on any program that teaches ethnic division. The program’s supporters, of course, pointed out that they were merely teaching students their own history and pride in their own culture. They also emphasized

The fact is, “exceptional Negroes” have always been a staple of an apartheid-like educational system that separates the “gifted” from the “normal,” and both from the “naughty” or “underachieving.” Sticks and stones will only break my bones, but words can lift or crush me.

“Easiest job in America,” we were told.

is an illusion. Race is a…

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