Stop Islamophobia? Know that #BlackLivesMatter — Medium

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Stop Islamophobia? Know that #BlackLivesMatter — Medium.

Islamophobia is yet another ongoing manifestation of our inability as a nation to recognize that Black Lives Matter. We accept that there are, in practice, gradations of being American, and as long as we can easily penalize a people based on the color of their skin, we can do so to anyone we find different than what we perceive as American.

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