Sahar Aziz is a distinguished professor of law and a Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School and author of The Racial Muslim:
When Sheila Vélez Martínez asked Matiangai Sirleaf to explain the connection between race and national security, she emphasized how closely related the two topics truly are. “Race has always been essential to thinking about national security,” Sirleaf said. “To the extent it’s been obscured, which I think it has, I think we need to interrogate.