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I wanted to commend my hometown paper and columnist Clarence Page for outlining the obvious flaws with the current practice of racial profiling (“The failings of Arab profiling,” Commentary, Sept. 22).
We did not learn after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
We interned more than more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans just because of their ethnicity.
We did not learn after World War II.
German- and Italian-Americans were harassed because of their heritage.
We did not learn from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
African-Americans are still being stopped solely because of the color of their skin.
And now we look suspiciously upon Muslims or Arab-Americans because of their faith and country of origin.
Are we ever going to learn?
