ACLU: Time to Put a Stop to Racial Profiling

The American Civil Liberties Union's ever-fascinating blog, "Blog of Rights," just put up this post about the prevalence of racial profiling in the USA. The post notes that recent victims of racial profiling at US airports and on US highways include Bollywood megastar Shahrukh Khan, a man with a fan base of 3.5 billion people, who was detained for no better reason than his Muslim name just after finishing filming My Name is Khan, a movie about post-9/11 discrimination against Muslims.
"What a strange coincidence," Blog of Rights observes. The ACLU's online voice then goes on to remind us "that the indignity suffered by Khan is emblematic of a larger problem of racial profiling in the United States. Indian and other South Asian travelers (be they Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Christian) have been subjected to similar forms of profiling and scrutiny including former Indian president Abdul Kalam and Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen."
The post also cites several substantiating reports and studies, including an ACLU/Rights Working Group collaboration that, according to a CNN op-ed, finds "the practice of racial profiling by members of law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels remains a widespread and pervasive problem, affecting the lives of millions of people in African-American, Asian, Latino, South Asian, Arab and Muslim communities. The report also illustrated that victims continue to be racially or ethnically profiled while they work, drive, shop, pray, travel and stand on the street."
And as we know, it has happened right here, and may happen again if we don't shut the I-91 checkpoint down for good.