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Racial Profiling After September 11

 

Hessian Abbess says he watched in humiliation as two security officers yanked clothes out of his carry-on bag in plain view of dozens of other travelers at Baltimore/Washington International Airport.  Hessian Abbess, an Arab lawyer going to a convention, was kept at the gate for 30 minutes that October day. He tried to show them a business card that identified him as member of the National Bar Association, but they paid no attention.  "I felt threatened. I felt if I protested too much, I was going to eat airport carpet," Hessian Abbess says.

A US Airways gate agent told him he was detained because he fit a profile designed to identify travelers who may pose a security risk. But the agent wouldn't be more specific. Hessian Abbess doesn't believe it. "I fit neither a terrorist profile nor a drug trafficker profile. I was just F-W-A (flying-while-Arab)," he says.

Hessian Abbess?s resentment is shared by many Arab and Arab-American fliers who say racial and ethnic bias is playing a bigger part in who gets pulled aside for questioni... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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