" Prior to 9/11, Arab American comedian Dean Obeidallah did not see his Palestinian heritage as pertinent to his life; he felt and was treated as “white.” Following the attacks, however, his Arab heritage became an issue for others if not for him, prompting him to perform a stand-up routine on how he “went to bed a white guy” the night before 9/11 and “woke up an Arab” the morning after. "

― Ruby Hamad , White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color