Posted on 07/08/2011 6:49:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Woman says TSA hair search amounts to racial profiling By Keith Laing - 07/08/11 01:03 PM ET
An African-American woman is accusing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of racial profiling because her hair was searched at an airport security checkpoint.
In an interview Friday on MSNBC, Laura Adiele said that TSA agents notified her after she went through a full-body scanner at Seattle's Sea-Tec Airport that her hair needed to be inspected. Adiele said she had no problem with being patted down, but she said the agents made the request to check her hair after she was scanned because she is black.
"It's already uncomfortable to be going through a naked body imaging," she said on MSNBC's "Jansing and Co." show. "For me, my hair is my breaking point."
"I played the race card in this just because I looked around and didn't see anyone else being searched in that way," Adiele continued. "And at the end of it, I had an African-American flight attendant come up to me and say that she's had this experience and that she's seeing it more frequently and that she thought I should complain about it."
Adiele said the TSA agents told her it was the agency's policy to check anything that "poofs" from the body.
TSA said that it screens all passengers "thoroughly," which might sometimes mean their hair.
"Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair where prohibiting items could be hidden," the agency said in a statement provided to the network. "TSA has record of this passenger coming through the security checkpoint. We are happy to work with this passenger directly and address her complaints."
However, Adiele said she did not see anything about hair in the guidelines posted on TSA's website.
"I've sent a complaint and I haven't heard anything back," she said. "The whole thing just seemed kind of fishy to me."
I was in Seattle last week and the TSA folks were great. I can’t remember the racial breakdown, I was tired, but I remember they were very pleasant.
SFO, on the other hand, are RACISTS x 100!
White people have not only been profiled since day one, our own government officials have been PRAYING that those involved in the terrorist acts were white people so they could finally break the chain of muslims doing the terrorism. Bloomberg himself was hoping to God white people were terrorists in the van incident in NYC.
Perhaps a "Chinook" salmon?
I was there too and, even though the line was long, it went smoothly and no problems at all. I was expecting the worst and got the best. lol
"Hey, that's my chopper, Charlie!"
"And this is my gun, Clyde."
Therrrrrre ya go!
I believe it. It’s always old people and young Whites who really get the going over.
"Watch-out sucker!"
Adiele said the TSA agents told her it was the agency’s policy to check anything that “poofs” from the body.
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Um
Burkas “poof”
Just saying...
Back in the 70s Angela Davis sneaked a pistol into a prison It was hidden in her hair.
. . . but what the H-E-double-toothpicks kind of a dress is that to wear as hostess at a state dinner?!
Someone should alert “The Hill” the airport is Sea-Tac as in Seattle-Tacoma and not Sea-Tec.
If anything it’s a bias against kinky hair. My sister-in-law had her hair thoroughly checked too. Red kinky hair, white skin. It was undoubtedly racial profiling of the Irish. :)
That being said, I don’t support anything the TSA does. They’re..eh..I’ll stop there.
“Burkas poof”
So do farts. Eat plenty of bran before you go to the airport.
And did you see anyone else with 'poofy' hair? And where there any black people with short hair being searched?
I think this person needs to take a logic class.
"I am the only human in the area with poofy hair. I am black. Therefore, to search my hair is racist." Uh, sorry young lady. You fail.
Also it helps when you are connected to the ideals of this Bozo POTUS/TOTUS stinking up the WH.
She did not mind being naked scanned and felt up. Just don’t mess with the black hair!
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