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Well, airlines ADMIT they profile, so that's not all that radical a stance to take!
Now what they look for ... that's a more debatable question. I know some of it (and I can assure you those things I know about 100% have nothing to do with race- they're things like *pretend example* "they bought their ticket on Tuesday"), but I don't know everything. (If I did know, I wouldn't be allowed to say anyway.) And I do know employees have the power to make subjective decisions. I know I got selected one time because I pissed off one of our ticket agents! Race can certainly factor into the subjective decisions employees make. So, yeah, unfortunately, an employee might perceive a black passenger to be more of a risk.
However, I gotta say, while I bet some employees are more likely to pick out African Americans for extra security, I think that's stupid. After all, the Sept. 11 terrorists were not African Americans. And aside from those attacks, most of the incidents with unruly/violent passengers I can think of involve white folks.
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