Back at it with the Racial Profiling// Tymie Jadagu// 6th Period

Link to Article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/politics/transportation-security-administration-racial-profiling/index.html
Summary: Andrew Rhoades, the current TSA federal security director of a Minneapolis airport, is accusing his superiors of telling him to racially profile Somali Americans. Minneapolis has a rather large Somali American populations, and Rhoades often assists in pointing Somali's who have encountered confusion and difficulties during travel screening, to agencies that can help them. Rhoades claims that that the TSA mistreats it's employees and alienates communities. When his superiors asked him to racially profile Somalians without any link to terrorism, he refused. The TSA claims it does not tolerate racial profiling, and that in 2013 it revised it's training document to ensure that anti discriminatory policies are effective. It is aware of the claim, and is now investigating to decide whether the TSA employee acted wrongfully
Analysis: In APUSH, we just finished watching the Butler, which details the civil rights movement and reflects different attitudes towards race and rights over the decades. While this incident itself doesn't involve African Americans, racial profiling is something that affects all minorities. The issue is both learned, from the behavior of those around us such as family and friends (like your one racist grandpa), and can be implicit, developed while you were unaware like many studies have inferred. Attitudes like this have been heightened at the increased amount of Terrorist Activity affecting our world today. Incidents such as 9/11, Paris, and conflict in Syria, has led ignorant Americans to try and justify their racial profiling. This is an issue that should be confronted, becuase stereotyping is wrong, and hinders us more than it helps. A race should not be held accountable for the actions of a few or an individual. This also relates to communism, and the red scare that plagued America during the period where communism was very prevalent.