I’m digging today reading people who were affected by 9/11 and whose voice we don’t usually give nearly enough attention. Two on McSweeney’s:

Stories like mine are silenced because some may have to suffer in the name of liberty and justice—primarily people of color.

And:

It felt like a double tragedy to me—as an American, of course, but also as a Muslim. Not only did they do this; they did this in my name.