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Racist Reasons
Posted by Deminora Witz on 18 November 2005
Racial profiling in airports does not provide safety; not necessarily.
For the color of one's skin is not a factor in whether they will blow up a
building or light something on fire.
Why are we operating on the assumption that
because an Arab woman is traveling on an airplane in the U.S., that she might
have a bomb, or some sort of explosive? What about the embittered white,
executive men, with their bloodshot eyes, mysterious packages, and cold
demeanors; are they not just as likely to detonate a bomb, as the Arab women
with her children, if not more so?
Bush has put homeland security into effect,
in an effort to create an "us against them" mentality, however, the people that
we are alienating are usually, our own. African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians,
and Arabs; they are all discriminated against in this "land of the free" What we
really must ask is who are we trying to fight? People of all races, ethnicity,
and religions have been born, raised in America and declared it their own country.
Honestly, this humiliation of people who call the U.S.
their country, can be interpreted as nothing less than blatant racism, being
excused on some bogus anti-terror explanation. This is one more way that the U.S.
is making racism excusable, by saying that one particular group, or a few
particular groups put everyone else at risk because of the color of their skin,
or the god that they pray to.
The reason for all of this racist
profiling, is to protect "freedom" but the only freedom that is being protected
is the freedom to humiliate, alienate, and subjugate people who happen to have a
different skin color from the Norman Rockwell standard, of blue eyes, blonde
hair, and rosy cheeks. Until the U.S. can ensure the freedom of its own people,
from the oppression that is racism, how can we justify trying to save freedom
from some obscure clutches?
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