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appearance, this fraction of an identity, is associated with crime and fear and inner-city grime, and <br />society doesn't want to think that our life could be like that. Judging people on our false preconceptions <br />has tragic consequences. A recent reminder of this was the death of Trayvon NTartin and the subsequent <br />trial of George Zimrnerman, when a teenager was killed just because he looked "suspicious". <br />The instinctual reaction to what we perceive as "dangerous" has not taken rights away from <br />African Americans only, though. The terrorist bombings of the World Trade Centers in I2001 sparked <br />widespread distrust of IVliddle-Eastern Americaans and people of Islam faith. Many people believe the <br />stereotype that all NIuslims or all Middle Eastern-Americans are terrorists. Twelve years later we have <br />built our memorials and mourned our dead, but we have no more resolved our aggression towards <br />Muslim people than we have brought back our beloved friends and family. <br />In the aftermath of 9/11, airline security was tighter than ever, and this spawned a new era of <br />racial profiling. Innocent citizens af the United States were pulled over, tracked, searched and frisked <br />just because they looked Arab, and this degrading treatment continues. My family sponsors a Syrian <br />student, Farah, who attends Macalester College, and she has told me stories of her experience traveling <br />across the border to Mexico while attending United World College last year. As the teacher presented <br />the students' passports, from countries all over the world, the border guard asked for "the Syrian" <br />Farah was questioned for an haur, because of her homeland. We may like to imagine this type of <br />discrimination is in our past, but this American assumption of guilt by association is a fact oi life for some <br />people and scares them out of their Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country (LJI�HR, Elrticle <br />13). <br />This persecution is not compatible with human dignity. By listening in on phone calls, frisking <br />people on the streets and interrogations without legitimate cause for suspicion, we use fear as a tool to <br />