Thursday, July 15, 2004

Racial Profiling
 
I had an experience similar to this woman flying back from Seattle to San Fran over the 4th of July a couple of years ago.  I guess it wasn't to this extent, with FBI running down the hall of SFO to board my flight and herd a group of 14 Middle Eastern men off the plane, but a couple of Egyptian looking me were asked to get off the plane only a few minutes before take-off...during the flight, the guy I ended up sitting next to had legal papers asking for political asylum in the US from Ethiopia.  It was a weird experience that got me thinking.
 
Is this a case of the Bush administration building fear into our heads and us becoming delusional?  Read this account and I'm positive you'll think differently.

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