In an article written in the immediate wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder, Sarsour and I, two Arab American Muslims, stated, “Institutional and structural racism is still robust in the US. This is evidenced by the disparate incarceration rates of brown and Black Americans, the decimation of affirmative action and race-conscious legislation in the US, and the crumbling public education systems in minority-populated communities with the all too common cold blooded murders of people of color.” The killing of Martin, we wrote, was not an aberrational or unexpected act, but a vile emanation from a deeply institutionalized racism

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 500