Racial Profiling vs. Racism

Today's Supreme Court decision on the Arizona Immigration law has made me think about racial profiling an it's relation to racism. I would like to make a point here. In my opinion:

Racial Profiling Is Not Racism.

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was allegedly destroyed by Islamic Arab terrorists that belonged to the alleged terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. Just to be clear, I believe that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job, planned and executed by the Bush Administration as an excuse to expand wars for oil, natural gas and fuel pipelines in the Middle East and Africa, and that the "terrorists" were actually U.S. and Israeli intelligence agents posing as Islamic terrorists. The Israeli government is a partner of the U.S. government in matters of oil and other natural resources and the plundering of them from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. (And no, I am not saying "Jews did 9/11," but I AM saying that I believe that the Israeli GOVERNMENT had a role in it, and that the Israeli people, as a whole, would have never thought to do something so horrific.)

But let's pretend that the official 9/11 story is actually true. Assuming that the official 9/11 story is true, remember that it was Arabs that destroyed the WTC. Under those circumstances, the most likely participants in future terrorist attacks would be Arabs. That would make them the first people you would want to investigate if a terrorist attack is threatened or takes place.

That, in itself, is not racism.

Here's what would be racism in relation to racial profiling in this example:

  • Continuing to investigate an Arab person for terrorism after his or her innocence has been proven
  • Bringing charges against someone for terrorist activity simply because he or she is of Arabian descent
  • Denying an Arab person access to services that are provided to people of other races because of false assumptions that the Arab person is a terrorist

The same goes for African-Americans and drug crimes, Hispanic-Americans for illegal immigration and Caucasian-Americans for financial crimes. Starting the investigation with a person of a race that has statistically performed the crime most often is not racism. Harassing a person of that race who has been found innocent, on the other hand, is racism and that racism should be decried, with those guilty of that racism being held legally responsible.

Posterous theme by Cory Watilo