Posted on 03/29/2015 6:59:47 PM PDT by 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.
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Does the scanner work on hair?
BS flag goes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfmzEpvW-g
Sorry - that was Angela Davis.
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?
That’s what I thought. Thanks for the correction.
A black woman pulls out the race card? No way!
The only real terrorists you have to look out for are white guys and gals from the age of one month to ninety ....
So that’s why Moochelle cut her hair. LOL!
Ten bucks says they're looking for a big,easy settlement.
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.
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.
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
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.
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