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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you white?[/quote]

This. I assume all PPs who have done it were. Sadly.[/quote]

+1  [/quote]

My Indian American Dh was not allowed on our flight back home with our kids and I from California because he lost his Driver's License while there, they had to run a bunch of checks and he got on the next flight back.

[b]He also 99% of the time get's pulled for the "random" extra security screening.  [/b]

I'm also Indian American but get much less slack since I'm female.  I feel sad for the crap my two sons will have to deal with as they get older.

Op- The DMV will send you an electronic copy of your driver's license that you can print and take with you.

[/quote] Oh for Pete's sake, I am a white middle aged woman and I routinely get pulled for extra screening--and even did when I was traveling solo with my kids when they were young.[/quote]

Please stop, it's people like you that make white people look so clueless and arrogant.

[/quote] You are clueless and arrogant. All races are subject to extra scrutiny and ignoring that fact to try and make a political point simply skews reality and adds to the problems we all face racially as a nation.[/quote]

A different PP and I agree that you are just willfully ignorant.  While it is true that all races are subject to extra scrutiny, they do so by sampling.  They do a few of this group here, a few there and so on.  However certain demographic groups are sampled at far greater percentages than others.  So while they may sample 0.5-1% of whites, they sample 4-5% of blacks or Latinos.  When Caucasians are over 50% of the flying public and blacks are about 20% of the flying public, the fact that more blacks are sampled than whites is an issue.   So, just because you as a middle aged white woman have been pulled over for extra screening does not counter the argument that minorities, most specifically blacks and Latinos, are sampled at far greater percentages.

Part of the reason that this type of racism and stereotyping of blacks and Latinos as more untrustworthy and needing greater scrutiny is hard to fight is the attitude from many like you who willfully ignore and debate that the problem exists.  [/quote]  So she is supposed to be okay with repeatedly being subject to extra scrutiny because she is white but an AA, latino--you conveniently failed to mention Middle Eastern male or Asian--is justified in being insulted, angry and diminished because they experience being pulled aside by TSA one time?  That attitude in and of itself is a problem.[/quote]

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