Racial Profiling Ges MAinstrea

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…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.