Tom Sowell and Michelle my belle explain why we need RACIAL PROFILING in today's world.

Townhall.com ^ | Thomas Sowell9/21/04

[AdrianSpidle]

Here we have two people of color who use their good sense to explain why, in today's dangerouse world, we need to include race and religion in our Homeland Defense plans and strategies.

September 21, 2004

Back in 1939, when Senator Daniel Inouye was a teenager, he attended a Japanese language school in Hawaii. He was appalled to discover that it was also a center for political propaganda, urging young Japanese Americans like himself to remember that they were Japanese first and owed an over-riding loyalty to Japan -- in peace or in war. They also ridiculed Christianity.

When young Daniel Inouye objected, he was thrown bodily out of the school. Later, during World War II, he proved his loyalty to America as a soldier in battle, where he lost an arm.

Inouye was one of many Japanese Americans who proved themselves in battle, many winning combat medals for valor. It is also true that there were some other Japanese Americans who went to Japan and joined their military forces to fight against America.

In short, there were both loyal Japanese Americans and disloyal Japanese Americans, including among the latter some who cooperated with Japan's espionage and subversion networks within the United States before and during the war. This was recognized at the time, even within the Japanese American community.

They could hardly have failed to recognize the disloyal, for some loyal Japanese Americans were bullied or beaten by those who were loyal to Japan.

The passage of time has, however, caused much of this to fade into the background. Thus steps taken during the war to deal with the dangers of espionage and subversion have later been widely attributed to sheer racism, an ever-popular explanation in some quarters.

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[Redbob]

OK, you know the rules concerning posts about Michelle Malkin...

[Tribune7]

It's not "racial profiling." It's letting race and ethnicity be used as part of profiling. It should be a no brainer that Moslem males get second looks.

[wizr]

There is so much hatred surrounding us, for our country, for our President.

You just don't know if the next idiot, willing to die for his/her cause, is standing next to you.

It's tough to profile all Arab, Israeli, Hispanic, black, white, red, yellow, males and females capable of causing pain and anguish to others around them.