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Getty Images Today, on September eleventh, many will probably be mourning the tragic lack of life in the course of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. Nonetheless, we must also remember the tragedies that subsequently occurred in the course of the horrific wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And importantly, we will always remember the lack of constitutional rights and the rise of the U.S. surveillance state that has targeted non-white people in our post 9/11 world. The surveillance state has existed because the inception of the USA. During slavery, Black Muslims were policed and compelled to convert to Christianity, for fear that Muslim slaves were more more likely to protest or revolt against their masters. As slave patrols morphed...