Racial profiling occurs everyday, but is it needed? September 11 raised this type of investigation to begin again. The attacks made most Caucasian-Americans to profile most people of Arab descent as terrorist . As Michelle Alexander of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California states "Prior to September 11, 80 percent of Americans opposed racial profiling. Since that day, there has been an immediate reversal of public opinion. Polls now show that 70 percent of Americans believe that some form of racial profiling is necessary, and acceptable, to ensure public safety." Even though the weeks following September 11, 70 percent of Americans believed that some form of racial profiling is needed. Is this right? Most people that are against racial profiling are the people that do get racially profiled and even some of them believe it is OK. And most people that want racial profiling don't like it when they get profiled. I have heard from people that have been searched more extensively at airports complain about the situation. An example of this is my high school math teacher, Damien Hiram who is 100% Hawaiian. He said after being profiled approximately 2 weeks after the attacks, "I thought that the profiling was a great idea for stopping these damn terrorist, but it was a pain in the ass being selected to be searched at every layover." As he said he wants profiling but doesn't like the inconvenience.
             Racial profiling does work however and evidence is very plentiful in the Detroit area. First of all, Detroit is the home to the highest concentration of Arab-Americans, and for that matter the highest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East . Lebanese brothers, Ali and Mike Boumelhem of Dearborn, Mich., attempted to ship loads of weaponry and ammunition over the Detroit-Canadian border to their eventual destination, the Hezbollah terrorist cell in Lebanon. Disguised as auto parts and...