[arjie]

For what it's worth, practically every brown guy I know goes through the rituals when interacting with US Gov officials. Shave, look as clean cut as possible, and don't stand out. So no opting out of the scanners, no joking at security or immigration, better have backup ID.

I'm not saying it's right that it's this way but it's safer. The officials are not very smart people but they have power, so you just give them what they want.

I'm not going to wage this war for liberty or whatever it is. I'm just going to go on vacation.

[klarrimore]

The security charade is nonsense, there's no doubt but I see hundreds of brown people going through security with zero issues every time I go to JFK.