[zeugma]

Each day I had to look into the eyes of passengers in niqabs and thawbs undergoing full-body pat-downs, having been guilty of nothing besides holding passports from the wrong nations. As the son of a German-American mother and an African-American father who was born in the Jim Crow South, I can pass for Middle Eastern, so the glares directed at me felt particularly accusatory. The thought nagged at me that I was enabling the same government-sanctioned bigotry my father had fought so hard to escape.

The fellow writing the article apparently didn't learn anything from 9/11. No wonder he worked for TSA

[12th_Monkey]

His statement gave me pause because I thought Muslims in their garb we given a pass...

So maybe that happened early on, not so sure if it’s true now