Airline Security Story -- shameful racism and xenophobia

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Paul Saffo <psaffo () iftf org>
Date: July 21, 2004 10:47:32 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Airline Security Story -- shameful racism and xenophobia

Nonsense. This is nothing more than a simple act of naive bigotry. A 
bunch of ignorant Americans were terrified by... a bunch of Syrian 
minstrels. Behavior like this is what is causing Indian engineers and 
others who look "foreign" to start leaving Silicon Valley because of 
the suspicious looks, whispers and outright expressions of hostility. 
Instead of triggering calls for profiling, Ms. Jacobsen's piece should 
trigger national reflection on rising American racism and xenophobia.
-p

(and for those who would call me naive, I've traveled over 100k miles 
this year alone)

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