The overly aggressive police state

[JitterbugPerfume]

Do you see the airport body scans as the latest symptom?

What about the indignity the Back and Hispanic population has suffered for decades?

Do we only react when white folks are targeted?

[golddigger]

1. Only white people fly? I didn't know that.

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. more rich white folks fly

than poor people of any ethnicity.

[avaistheone1]

8. More poor white folks don't fly

since poor whites make up the largest ethnicity of the poor.

[treestar]

6. I think the idea was white people notice a problem now

That nonwhite people can tell them of centuries of such things already happening.

[HopeHoops]

2. We as the informed segment of the country or we as the collective country?

For those of us who have been pissed about it since at least the Reagan years, no - we react whenever it happens. For the FOX Noise white folk, yeah, it is only when they are subjected to indignities that should be reserved for "other people".

[durkermaker]

3. really? non-suspect, non-whites are being strip searched elsewhere?

i did not know that

[Angry Dragon]

5. That is pretty unfair

I guess no whites marched or got killed in the south
to fight for civil rights. Yes, it is easier to fight for
your own rights but at the same time it is the democrats
that can still see past their own selves to see the
injustice heaped on others.

[sabrina 1]

7. I don't know about you, but many of us have been reacting

for years. Did you see the reaction to the Az law targeting Hispanics eg? The reaction to the stalling on DADT?

Not sure why you haven't noticed that most of the people here reacting to the body scanners also reacted to anything that attacked the civil liberties of any American.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. I like to think

that the DU community is better informed than the general population, The truth is that minority populstions have been targeted for decades ,

that is all