Racial Profiling Ges MAinstrea

Eighteen years ago a 12 year old witnessed members of his family, neighbors and school friends slaughtered from a distance. He saw an army take on people with rocks and stones. As he watched this, he thought, “why can’t Reagan [Ronald Reagan, president of the U.S. at that time] just take over the world…then the entire world could be at peace, there would be no more war, for there would be nothing to …

…is enormous. The cost of racial profiling is not simply the marginal inconvenience of Arab or Muslim people at the airport. The cost is the very existence of racial equality in America. What racial profiling does is reinforce the significance or race and national origin as a factor in the allocation of rights. Even more than that, it posits whiteness as the common denominator of American identity by reifying non-whiteness as a badge of otherness.