Airport pat-downs of black women's hairstyles discriminatory: ACLU

Reuters ^ | March 26, 2015 | Sharon Bernstein

[QT3.14]

Two black women who said their hairstyles made them targets for airport security pat-downs said on Thursday the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had agreed to stop singling out women for screening based solely on their "sisterlocks."

Malaika Singleton, a neuroscientist based in Sacramento, said she was on her way to London last year for an academic conference on dementia when a TSA agent at Los Angeles International Airport began pulling and squeezing her hair.

"I was going through the screening procedures like we all do, and after I stepped out of the full body scanner, the agent said, 'OK, now I'm going to check her hair,'" Singleton said on Thursday.

The same thing happened when she passed through the Minneapolis airport on her way back home, Singleton said.

She contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, and it turned out that one of the lawyers there, a black woman who also wears the tiny, stylized form of dreadlocks known as sisterlocks had the same experience - twice.

[QT3.14]

Black privilege?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Does the scanner work on hair?

[Chode]

Hair Hatted Hooligan's

[faithhopecharity]

BS flag goes here:

[RightGeek]

Terrorist Afro - Joanne Chesimard.

[Mastador1]

Who would a White woman with a bulbous bouffant call? And just because...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfmzEpvW-g

[RightGeek]

Sorry - that was Angela Davis.

[MeshugeMikey]

Malaika Singleton, a neuroscientist based in Sacramento, said she was on her way to London last year for an academic conference... on ......dementia

hmmmm could she have been the conference..study subject?

[RightGeek]

Here's Joanne Chesimard:

[rabidralph]

That’s what I thought. Thanks for the correction.

[max americana]

A black woman pulls out the race card? No way!

[SkyDancer]

The only real terrorists you have to look out for are white guys and gals from the age of one month to ninety ....

[Salvation]

So that’s why Moochelle cut her hair. LOL!

[Gay State Conservative]

If my 85 year old,white,wheelchair bound father can be given a thorough check by airport security (more than once,in fact) a woman with big hair can get the same treatment...regardless of her race.

Ten bucks says they're looking for a big,easy settlement.

[rey]

So if black males have dreads, they will be searched? That’s not discriminatory?

But they will still search nuns, old people in wheel chairs and make you remove your baby’s diaper.

[fidelis]

It's not the race, it's the hairstyle.

[BigEdLB]

B..RACIS'

[mrsdeb]

The TSA checks my hair every single time I fly. They either squeeze it if it’s up in a bun, or ask me to take it down (if it’s up in a claw clip). Every single time.

Perhaps I should shout angrily about racism next time. Sheesh.

[Secret Agent Man]

So what. they have to go through abusive rapist screenings by the Tough Sh1t A$$holes like everyone else. They test breast milk and strip search wheelchair retirees.

After all if it saves one life. /liberal logic

[Erik Latranyi]

Al Qaeda and ISIS are sophisticated enough to know our system.

They would try to use racism, sexism, etc to create a loophole in our security so they can exploit it.

We are stupid enough to fall for it.