Racial profiling is now definitely OK depending on the context of the situation (you know, hopping on a plane even if you do not look suspicious).
Looking Middle Easter = NO plane ride
It is as simple as that! You don't have to be an Arab, you just have to remotely look like one. Time for plastic surgery!
Seriously, you don't have to be Middle Eastern, because as long as you look Middle Eastern you will automatically be a suspicion. You don't really have to do anything suspicious, but you can just be sitting in your seat ready to go to you desired destination. Oops, they just looked at you! Sorry, out of luck!
This very situation happened to an American man of Portuguese descent in the case, Cerqueira v. American Airlines.
Cerqueira? I mean, does that name even sound Middle Eastern? No...
Read the full story at
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2585
and case details at
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/PersLiberty/
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