The other thing that strikes me is the contention that somehow the racial profilers have assigned a value to a race, rather than profiling in response to actions.

In other words, some people imply that if you racially profile you are somehow taking it upon yourself to label a group dangerous as if it was independent of their actions.

And, at the end of the day, race is just the quick identifier. It is not some "Oh thank god now I finally have a reason to justify my long-held hatreds...."

If the Red-Headed League started worldwide campaigns of terror, we'd be looking at them in the same way. 99% of red-headed people would be innocent and 99.999999% of the time nothing would happen, but if something did happen, it would involve a red-head almost 100% of the time.

Which would make it silly to ignore this fact.