Not All American Terror Wears a Turban

The cross burned on lawns long before anyone blamed the Quran.

What comes to mind when you hear the word “terrorist”?

If you grew up in post-9/11 America, it’s probably a brown guy shouting in Arabic. That’s how the media trained you. Brown skin, foreign words, Islam — that’s what “terror” was supposed to look like. The government spent trillions on wars and security while ignoring what was happening in its own back…