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This is Random Ramblings. It doesn't have to be about chickens lol.

Yes, I am a grandma and yes, I got checked. But the metal detector did not go off. They simply had to do that to someone and I got chosen because then they could say there weren't using racial profiling. I suppose. This was just after 9/11. I found it odd that I was the one chosen both times...

In the case you cite, probably so. My point is, when you completely do away with "profiling" you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Correct, but what happens when racial profiling is outlawed entirely? When a "Mid Eastern" person is fingered as having commited a crime and plenty of white people are targetted by airline security and brought aside for scans. Like me. And my underage daughter. Twice. In one trip. Having boarded...

You are right, I called no one a racist. I think racism begins when you make assumptions based on race alone. You see, I've heard that same old tired arguement about white collar crime again and again and never with any references to fact. So it always looks to be something someone is parroting...

Unless there's stats somewhere that prove all "white collar" crime is committed by white people, the assumption that it is, is racist, actually.

comment removed for being stupid. On second thought, That might have been better than removing it. :gig But wait. The sky ISN'T falling?

Actually, only one was impeached. Nixon resigned from office before the impeachment could commence. He chose to resign rather than "put the nation through such a thing" or something like that, according to him.