Need better solutions
Problems with racial profiling:
1)Who determines who is suspicious-passengers, cashiers, the luggage boy? When it comes to races, many people have a hard time telling the difference between people of the same race, let alone people who may look like a certain race.
2)What makes one suspicious- "oh, he looks Arab/Muslim", "he/she is wearing different clothing", he/she's walking slowly, or looks uncertain/nervous. How does one define suspicious?
3)We check all those that look Arab or seem suspicious to ensure safety and oops we overlook the (whatever other race) person with a bomb. Well this situation makes us vulnerable and prey to other acts of violence in the friendly skies.
Racial profiling is exactly that RACIAL PROFILING. Whether it happens in a store or on a plane. One may say that the store profiling doesn't matter cause it's not to the degree of saving lives. Overall, the method doesn't work on one level or the next and one can't use a wrong to do right. The real problem is the ignorace that people are so quick to fall for. People want a fast and easy solution to a huge problem and don't want to take the time out to contemplate a justified and long-term solution.
So what are other solutions to the problem? My opinion- Airports need to correct their security measures. There are plenty of airports that have become laxed in taking precautions for customer safety and customer service. Airports are forgetting to do regular maintenance on planes, they will lose your luggage at the drop of a dime, delay you for no reason, and let you through the detectors because they attributed the alarm going off due to an earring-I've seen it happen.
So it's not the race that we should have a problem with. It's our own system. Everything that happens is give and take. These terrorists could only do but so much. The rest of their mission was aided by the inefficiencies of our airports.
We had this discussion in one of my classes (my school is predominately white) and of course most of the minorities didn't support racial profiling, but the majority well you know.....
Allowing racial profiling is just another step in the wrong direction towards the advancement for ALL minorities.
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