crisgray:

I went on a trip to Ireland a few years ago with a group of my white friends. At one point on the trip, we got some bad treatment from the locals. Not because of race or religion but because we were Americans. One of my white friends, began crying and kept repeating “Why would they treat us like that? We haven’t done anything.” As shocked as they were, I was not shocked at all. Why? Try growing up as a minority in this country, especially in the south, and you’re discriminated against regularly. I find it fascinating when people who are accustomed to not getting shit finally get shit upon and then they whine about it to those of us who have been on the receiving end of that shit all of our lives. Racial profiling by police and at the airport seems ok if your skin is brown. Doesn’t seems like anybody cares. That spotlight needs to be turned onto the homegrown terrorists right here who have white skin. During my life, the only people blowing shit up here in the U.S. have been crazy white folks…Timothy McVeigh…Eric Rudolph…The Unabomber…bombing of black churches during Civil Rights…bombing of Tulsa in 1921. The list goes on and on. (Sept 11th was the only exception I’ve ever known.) There are more extreme white supremist groups out there predicting more attacks out there but you never hear anyone railing to ship them off to Guantanamo and water board them to find out about these eminent terrorist attacks. I’m not afraid of the Muslim terrorist ghost stories that have kept everyone’s head in the sand for the past 8 year. I’m watching for “Bubba” in the pickup truck with the cache of weapons at home who is just itching for a race war. Ever notice that there are very few black ‘innocent bystanders’ when this shit goes down? We’re keeping an eye on the crazy motherfuckers right here and not in caves half a world away.

I so feel you Cris.  I’m tired of hearing jokes where [mostly white, sometimes black] people say, “Why is TSA searching me while Achmed and Mohammed are walking through…it’s not racial profiling, it’s good police work, blah, blah…”

NO, it’s lazy police work or security or w/ev you wanna call it.  Don’t give me that bullshit as if brown people are the only ones to ever commit a terrorist act in this country, hell on this planet! So you should be exempt from searches because you ‘appear safe’ in your own biased eyes?  I hope you get a cavity search!