  for quite some time now, i've been reading other blogs. one in particular because he is quite entertaining... and as soon as i learn how, i will add some links and you can check him out. anyway, today's post was a flash back, to the time around 9/11. dealing with racial profiling. just the phrase alone makes me tense. i am a white american, lived overseas, but looks alone i'd probably not be asked for an ID as much as a non-white person might. the term racial profiling makes me feel like i should apologize for my skin color. i don't believe we should ID anyone based on looks alone.
yet i do understand the immense fear after what happened on 9/11. so many if's... if we paid more attention, if we didn't have any corruption in our own government, if we followed rules we created in the beginning to keep our selves safe, if we didn't cut budgets where it counted and had the people or equipment necessary .... well, it happened. now we're left to deal with it. i still don't believe in racial profiling. and i don't get angry when the airport security tells me to take off my shoes.
just because i am white doesn't mean i think racial profiling is right. i'm sure there is an answer that is politically correct to all of this... and i am also sure there will be many people who have lost or will lose loved ones because of terror issues that will want answers and actions. it's a shame it isn't a perfect world. just as it would be a shame if a person of another ethnic backgound known to be some type of extremist crashed a plane on your loved one, knowing it could have been avoided had someone ID'd him before he got on the plane. touchy subject for sure... you got the right answer? 
