answer:Oh now that is funny as hell. I once said that, if I was a terrorist and was plotting some destruction, I would recruit average white citizens to do the job. I would avoid people who look like stereotypical terrorists because I would want the best chance at success. There are enough nutjobs like Jihad Jane to do the trick. And, thus, racial profiling is damaging to more than just the profiled people because someone who looks like your average Jane or John Doe is more likely to slip by. I have always maintained that scrutiny should be equal. On a more personal note, when I get stopped to have my bags or cart checked for goods I obviously must have stolen because I am Rromani Gypsy, what about the average white American with stolen goods in her bags that walks out of the store unnoticed while they are paying attention to watching me in a store and searching my bags? That is one security person tied up with me who is not watching other people. Oh, if you do not think that this happens, read an account from a white employee of a store who testifies otherwise A friend of mine was pinned against a police car while jogging in his neighborhood to harass him. He was a very dark skinned Rromano and the police did not like “his sort” so they routinely pinned him against their car and frisked him when he was out jogging… because the police could and we are racially profiled in many States and towns. So they had an excuse. Now, that was done to harass my friend, not a random thing. However, if it was a random stop, what about someone else, not racially profiled, jogging by with drugs in his or her pants pockets? They are going to be looking first at whoever is racially profiled before they look at someone who is not and could be engaged in the exact behaviour suspected of the profiled person. In the cases I describe, their attention is focused on the profiled group instead of watching everyone. Some people say that racial profiling does not exist. That is blatantly not true. I doubt that it exists everywhere, in every police district or other authority, but it does exist.