TSA-ACLU agreement re screening black women's hair
Oct 21, 2016, 4:22 pm
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TSA-ACLU agreement re screening black women's hair
Oct 21, 2016, 4:49 pm
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Oct 21, 2016, 5:10 pm
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There are plenty of women out there who are not women of color but who are wearing lots of extensions.
Limited sample size, but I don't recall seeing or reading about one of them getting the frisk.
I wonder if their training includes exposure to Kim Kardashian-style extensions, or if the illustrations are all of women of color and the language refers to 'afros' and 'dreads'.
Limited sample size, but I don't recall seeing or reading about one of them getting the frisk.
I wonder if their training includes exposure to Kim Kardashian-style extensions, or if the illustrations are all of women of color and the language refers to 'afros' and 'dreads'.
Oct 21, 2016, 5:59 pm
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It's interesting as TSA claims MMW can find something as small as a postage stamp on one's person, but it apparently can't "see" through hair if it has to do head searches on people with lots of hair. That's quite an admission.
Do the beards of men get searched as well? If not, why not?
Do the beards of men get searched as well? If not, why not?
Oct 21, 2016, 6:08 pm
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MSP and LAX will both provide retraining to their respective TSA workforce to stress TSA's commitment to race neutrality in its security screening activities with special emphasis on hair patdowns of African
-American female travelers.
-American female travelers.
In addition, even though TSA does incorporate nondiscrimination principles into its regular training, MB will work with the TSA's Office of Training and Workforce Engagement to make certain that current
training related to nondiscrimination is clear and consistent for TSA's workforce.
training related to nondiscrimination is clear and consistent for TSA's workforce.
Oct 21, 2016, 10:51 pm
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IIRC, MMW only works if there's a dense fatty/bony background behind the thing being looked at. So it wouldn't work for head hair that's above skull height.
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Oct 22, 2016, 12:56 pm
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So why doesn't everyone get their hair groped? Why is it mostly black women?
Oct 22, 2016, 2:25 pm
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Well, in all fairness, TSA's obsession with black women's hair, regardless of length or style, is somewhat balanced by their willingness to stroke a bald man's head, something I've witnessed more than a few times.
Oct 22, 2016, 4:53 pm
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Which demonstrates that TSA screening procedures are not threat based but hype based.
Oct 23, 2016, 7:33 am
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Whether they call it "targeting" or "profiling", its the same thing. Whether they explicitly refer to a category of people or use a proxy factor to capture a category of people, the outcome is largely the same.