Today, there is much talk about racial profiles because a person's race may somewhat be involved with terrorist groups and wrongs stuff like that.

Checking someone's driver's licence extra carefully and asking him a few more questions at an airport about his citizenship is very different than denying him a seat on the plane altogether. Forcing only one racial group to carry special ID cards inposes huge burdens, especially when one knows history and remembers the Nazi treatment of Jews. In general, the larger the burden we are imposing on a group, the less likely we would all impose it on ourselves if the racial roles were reversed.

We should also think whether there are things we could be doing to minimize the insults to those who are burdened. Sometimes, that means extending the burdened class beyond the racial minority. An example is, a national ID card for everyone would surely be a better solution than "special" ID cards for some groups.

Racial profiling by government may be quite different than by private organizations because government is answerable to people in a way America is not. We might trust government to use the dangerous weapons of race. What I mean is that if the decision to remove people from planes and other places should be taken, then it should be done by public polititions not private.

The big point is that racial profiling is complicated and we must be careful of how we approach it. Each of us try to imagine what we tried to imagine as to the bombing victims themselves - what if it were I? I just want for people to hear that racial profiling is wrong and so what if a person is from a certain race, we are all one. STOP RACIAL PROFILING!