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Originally Posted by lookout123
the 14 syrians were not denied access to flights, they were not harassed in the air, they were not detained on the ground. they were watched, as they should have been.
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If they were watched, investigated and cleared and went on to play their concert without incident, that'd be one thing.
If they were watched, investigated and cleared and went on to play their concert, oblivious to the fact that their mere presence and innocuous behavior creeped out a skittish white fellow passenger with 9/11 on the brain (they didn't SMILE BACK at her! The horror!), who then posted a paranoid rant about her flight experience online, lighting up the Internet and talk radio with debate as to whether they were REALLY sinister Syrian terrorists testing out methods of blowing up American airplanes in the name of Allah, making them minor celebrities of an unwelcome variety, that's quite another.
I thought Driving While Black was a bit much, but Flying While Arabic takes it to a whole new level.
BTW, the lead picture on this <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2004/07/21/askthepilot95/">Salon article</a> is hysterically appropriate.