+636 Airport security always seems to "randomly select" arabs, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

I get randomly selected a lot :( But I'm Colombian.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no, they're not arabs; they're just people who look like they're from the middle east or india.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah.. that's kind of the point. it's supposed to be random selections- not racial profiling.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

India? I wasn't aware that there were major terrorist groups in India.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So? Those are the people that look like terrorists. Now, from an airport security person's point of view: would you be more apt to thoroughly check over an 82 year old African American woman in a wheelchair OR a 27 year old Arabian man? Considering what happened here almost 9 years ago, NO chances can be taken. Sorry if I "offended" anyone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm half arab, half african american. i'm eighteen, i was traveling alone, and i'm 6 months pregnant, and i was "randomly stopped" for 4 hours after having traveled thousands of miles. Yeah, those stops aren't so random, but just because I was covered I was stopped. Tell me, what threat does a pregnant girl have on homeland security? What? the baby is a terrorist? I hate traveling because of their religious and racial profiling.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sorry that happened to you, but I'm just going by my personal experience. I've never seen anything like that happen when I've been in an airport and I've been in quite a few.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well it's happened twice to me already and to a few innocent family friends. we're all americans who just want to get home peacefully and without trouble but border control make us feel like we're unsafe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@#466041 (rowanne): yeah I get that but it's not neccessarily the Arabs that are being singled out is what I was trying to get across.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah neither was I but a lot of people confuse indians with middle easterns... There were A LOT of indian people who were being targeted because people can't tell the difference.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THANK YOU, i love how every arab i know gets randomly checked EVERY SINGLE TIME they travel..and we travel a lot

by Anonymous 13 years ago

These people are just doing their jobs to keep people safe. Although most arabs aren't terrorists, many terrorists are arab. Just because you know you're safe, doesn't mean they do. If these same people would meet you on the street they would treat you the same way they treat anyone else. My friends dad gets stopped every single time he flies and he's a rabbi. It makes him happy to know they're working to protect everyone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I often get checked, I am a white 14 year old girl, I always get tested for drugs, and I often get patted down. They once found a bike lock with a big chain in my back-pack when I was 8 and I told them it was my brothers back-pack and they let me go on the plane with it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago