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...other discussion of the night centered around racial profiling in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Panelists condemned hate crimes that have targeted dark-skinned Americans as well as subtler forms of discrimination...
...whether they are receptive or not, the changes have already begun. Long waits to cross the Canadian and Mexican borders were the rule last week, as vehicles and travelers were finecombed by border police. Civil libertarians are bracing for an upsurge of "racial profiling" at airports targeting Arab Americans, or for an FBI investigation of the attacks that sucks in many innocent members of that group, or simply for a wave of hate crimes against them...
This summer, I thought a lot about identity politics and the dangers of racial profiling while working at the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco. As an aspiring civil rights attorney, working at the ACLU was a dream job, and I spent nine happy weeks reading over case files. One of the old cases I reviewed was Korematsu vs. United States. Fred Korematsu was an activist who defied the internment camp order. The ACLU argued against Japanese internment before the Supreme Court, and in a disgraceful ruling, the Court decided in favor of the continued imprisonment of Japanese-Americans...
Cindy L. Rodriguez ’02, president of the guide’s publisher Harvard Student Agencies, said HSA had not known that “Paki” was a racial slur when it decided to keep the previous year’s blurb for this year’s edition...
...Maybe they didn’t mean any harm, but using racial slurs are seeds of ignorance that we are now seeing manifested as hate crimes against people with brown skin,” he added...