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OK, am I the only one who is sitting here thinking "We hear about this one incident on 'racial profiling' by 'randomly' picking a group of Muslim dressed people, but how many THOUSANDS of other people are randomly selected EVERY DAY that are NOT standing out in some way?" I mean seriously. I have traveled a bit since 9/11 and I see atleast one out of every 10 people taken out of line for 'random' checks. Hell I am as white as I can be: Blonde hair, blue eyes, etc...and I have several times been selected 'randomly' for checks. And since I am white, it isn't important. But when a person if of a different race or religion, suddenly it is racial profiling??? I am sorry, but I think that is a bunch of BS! It makes the news, it allows the media to AGAIN bring up something in the limelight because that is what the media thrives on. I mean come on. do you REALLY think that random searches come out once a day? there are THOUSANDS of them every day all over the world.
Now before I get flamed here, I am by no means saying that racial profiling is right. I am NOT saying that it doesn't happen, but EVERY TIME a person is 'randomly' selected, and they are different, everyone thinks that it HAS to be profiling!
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