Racial Profiling... or what?

By: Aram Mood: productive Date: 10/20/2007 23:20:38 Music: none...

We're in the process of moving to the other end of the state, lucky for us the state isn't very large. Anyway, Friday my brother and I were traveling at a high rate of speed down the turnpike. (We had foregone traveling with my mother which would have been deadly.) When we passed what used to be a Penske truck with a small nameplate attached to the side. On it were the words (insert hispanic sounding name here) bros. delivery service.  I sarcastically told my brother that instead of putting illegals into pickup toolboxes, (More on that shortly) they had put them into this box truck. He looked at me in mock horror and told me that was racial profiling. 

So, my comtemplation here today is, if one sees a box truck with an arabic sounding name on the side do we automatically think 'terrorists'? Probably not in middle America.But, if we see one with a Hispanic name on it, we might jump to a slightly logical conclusion. And, here is my partial reasoning for this.

My father is currently working on two Air Force bases. One is here in OK, the other in Tx. Last week, part of another crew try to bring two illegal immigrants onto the base by way of pickup toolboxes. Unfortunately for them, the base was in an elevated status AND one of the MPs just happened to see them stuff the guy in there while at a resturant.

I suppose it really sucked to be them.