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[IP] Airline Security Story -- shameful racism and xenophobia





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From: Paul Saffo <psaffo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: July 21, 2004 10:47:32 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Airline Security Story -- shameful racism and xenophobia

Nonsense. This is nothing more than a simple act of naive bigotry. A bunch of ignorant Americans were terrified by... a bunch of Syrian minstrels. Behavior like this is what is causing Indian engineers and others who look "foreign" to start leaving Silicon Valley because of the suspicious looks, whispers and outright expressions of hostility. Instead of triggering calls for profiling, Ms. Jacobsen's piece should trigger national reflection on rising American racism and xenophobia.
-p

(and for those who would call me naive, I've traveled over 100k miles this year alone)

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