I'm in salt lake city right now, and on the way here i stopped in two airports, one in detroit and one in minneapolis, and I'm Indian by the way.
I was "randomly selected" to be put through searches when boarding both planes, and I'm positive the same thing will happen when I return to Michigan.
It's just embarrassing to see these guys that work at the airport pass all these people of different nationalities, and as soon as they come across someone who looks remotely brown, they get selected. I don't think it's random at all, and it's blatant discrimination. Plus, when other people are searched, I notice they were let off easy, yet I stay for about 10 minutes, and they conduct a full search, I'm surprised they don't strip me down and give me a body cavity search.
I donno, I've decided to possibly do one of a few things:
1. to make and wear a shirt that says , "I am not a terrorist" when traveling
2. leave humorous yet insulting notes for the people conducting the search to find and read while searching me.
3.when I'm about to board, instead of boarding I just walk over to get searched, and eliminate the step of them asking me to do it, and to make it into a big deal when I am getting searched., and have my friends take a picture of me.
at the very least, I think I've resolved to educate the person who searches me, and perhaps say "Just because it my skin is brown, it doesn't make me a terrorist."
If they're going to search people they might not be so fucking racist. Honestly this purposeful profiling won't do any good, It's simple threat construction logic. When you profile the brown man, and turn him into a threat, eventually, he will become one. Not to say that I will at all, I would abhor such a thing, but it's quite possible..
oh well, that's just my rant, after being so irked by the airports.
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