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Yes, I hate filling out those forms as well. To me it shouldn't matter in most situations what my race is. This is especially true of most survey type forms. They are doing their own form of racial profiling. They take our answers, group them by race and look for trends.

The real problem with racial profiling is that it can become a tool that allows people to act in a prejudice way and use the excuse that it was just profiling. I believe that is probably the biggest reason for objection you will get from minority communities.

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I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport.

I don't care if they"re being inconvenienced. I don't care if it seems as though their rights are being violated.

I care about my life. I care about the lives of my family and friends.
Ref. https://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display....85?in_archive=1

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Racial profiling has been a problem for some time in this country, even before 9/11. During world war 2, many asian people were rounded up and put in special camps simply for being Japanese or of other asian descent. This has also occurred in the black community and the hispanic community on a daily bases for many years, being suspected of crimes just because of their color. When people of one race or culture do something wrong, it makes the rest of their race or culture look bad when they are a minority because the small number of people in view is representing the smaller number of people the majority sees. If wrong, unethical, and immoral in my opinion but I don't see a good way to combat it. You can't change peoples view of others over night, these stereotypes and profiles have built up in peoples minds for years in some cases. Of course in the case of 9/11 and muslims, it took one catastrophic event to turn public opinion. Its a case of the extreme minority representing the majority of muslims, it happens in this country, even within political parties.

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We Will Not Be Silent: Movement Grows to Challenge Racial Profiling at Airports

A growing movement across the country is challenging what appears to be an increase in racial profiling at airports. More and more travelers are donning T-shirts that say "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic in solidarity with Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar who was forced to change the T-Shirt before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight at Kennedy airport.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/01/1338241

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When it comes to racial profiling, I have my own kinda litmus test for whether or not it is alright. (This test may only make sense to me, but I'll try to explain it as best as I can.)

If I can substitute "green eyed" and have the situation still make sense in my mind, then it's ok to me. For example: Due to an increased threat of airplane hijackings by "green eyed" men, security agents are being careful to check them more thoroughly. To me, that's ok. But if it is: Scholarship program initiated for "green eyed" men. I have a problem with that.

I guess my theory is that if it would be alright based on another descriptive feature, than it's alright to consider race.

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Racial profiling has been used throughout history to some degree or another. Humans still have not overcome their innate fear of those who are different from themselves and racial profiling helps to prove it. I think it's wrong for a person to be pulled over by a police officer just because they are colored, but considering society, how many white people should be pulled over at 3:00 am because they are in the "wrong" neighborhood. All of them. You can imagine what I mean, it's not hard. I don't think that racism or racial profiling is always what it seems. Sure, after 9/11 there is an instinct to watch a certain racial profile but I don't think that it should be based on their race, or their name, but you have to do it with an acceptable context. Not every Islamic Cleric is telling their congregation to blow up a white person or a Jew, but should we detain them all until they prove different because of their race? No. Besides Arabs are the genetic cousins of the Jews, how many jews were arrested because of their appearance? Who would decide the difference between their appearance? Profiling will always be useful to a degree but race based profiling, thats ignorance in one of its extremes. American Society, I think, always get a little out of control. Had America's "Red Scare", during the cold war, been race based then all the white people would still be in jail because they look like they could be from Russia. I had to call the cops on a Hispanic person after 9/11. He thought that he'd rough up a couple of kids of Indian (the country) descent at a bus stop because of their race. It turned out that the kids were Hindu, not Islamic, and the Hispanic was a gang member and an illegal immigrant. Which one's the terrorist? The Mexican is. Not every person from Mexico is a member of a gang or an illegal immigrant, but shouldn't profiling be used to single out people who are gang members or illegal immirants. I think so. Their appearance and social behavior tend to give them away regardless of their race and with a little intelligence and some common sense it helps to keep my country safe.

Edited: RoysOffice on 12th Oct, 2006 - 11:53am

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Shame on the guy. What was he thinking? He is a minority himself and one may think of ALL people, he would be able to understand how those families feel after 9/11 knowing that because of their "look" they may get some rough treatment. *shaking head*

Yes, but how could be done? The issue with illegal immigrants is that most of the time you hear complaints about Mexicans or South Americans, but you never hear the same complaint towards illegal Europeans working in the US. There seem to be a connection though with gangs, crimes and these illegal immigrants...yet I know people who may have a certain "look" but it does not mean they are criminals. So how to go about the profiling then without hurting innocent people?

When I lived in the US some people would just approach me and talk to me in Spanish even though I was speaking to them in English because they thought "Oh, she is a Hispanic woman, therefore, does not know English", being educated sometimes does not help because the profiling and the stereotype the people create is too "heavy" to remove.

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I travel a lot to foreign countries and you can see profiling all the time. For instance, any time I have flown from a asian country (Japan, Korea or Taiwan) to Australia, the flight is profiled for extra searching of bringing over illegal fruits, meats and vegetables. We all get screened more than my U.S. based flights to Australia and I am, as I like to tell the census takers in the U.S., Iro-American (Irish American - no such category, but is fun to see their reactions). You can argue that they check everyone on the flight so it is alright. However, they only really do the stringent search for flights of asian origin and this is profiling. The major problem is...they actually catch a lot of people bringing in illegal items, so it works. In this case, profiling protects the entire Australian Agriculture and most everyone would be in favor of that result.

The emotions really get stirred when we talk about profiling for terrorist. Do I want the screeners at the airport to spend more of their time looking through the luggage of several members of AARP (American Association of Retired People) on a holiday together or a group of all male arabic muslims? Unfortunately, in todays world, I would have to say I am for the profiling in this case. In time, when there are not a majority of terrorists that are of that profile, then the profile will cease to exists.

Should a policeman be able to pull over a car just because it is a nice car and driven by a African Male? Unless that car is speeding or the driver "really" appears under the influence, no way. Never as clear cut as we would want!