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The Disgrace of Racial Profiling
Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com

You want to take up the issue of racial profiling in the US, that’s an easy one. Against whom and what period in the history of the republic are we talking about? Ethnic Americans have all had to endure it, at one time or another, whether Africans or Irish, Italians or Germans, Japanese or Chinese, Jews or, its latest victims, Arabs.

In these politically correct times, however, there are laws on the books designed to protect you (the Orwellian edge of the Patriot Act notwithstanding) against discrimination based on your race, religion, skin color, nationality, accent and the way you, well, just look, say, like a “shifty eyed, swarthy Middle Easterner.�

You probably heard the one â€â€