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Today is the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington D.C.

The attacks killed more than 3,000 people, and shook the country to its core — leading the U.S. into two wars: one in Afghanistan, justified by the attacks, and the other in Iraq, based on a dubious case made by the Bush administration.

Twelve years later, with a new administration in office, and the country once again considering middle action in the Middle East (in fact, in the country next door to Iraq — Syria); we look back on the many ways 9/11 changed everything.

1. Suspicion

African-Americans have long labored under the constant surveillance of police, and the suspicion of our fellow Americans. The notion that any black man is potentially a criminal menace is in some ways, baked into the American experience, dating back to slavery, and the endemic fear of white slave-owners of the masses of unpaid laborers, ripped from their own countries, often ill-treated, and who in many cases outnumbered the white plantation bosses.

American culture evolved a systemic fear of the black male, and an attendant disregard for black womanhood, that has taken many, sometimes violent forms (think Jim Crow and Lynching in the post-Civil War south, or race riots and racial profiling in the north).

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article courtesy of TheGrio.com

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