Derek Kawahara
November 8, 2015
ASA 2 - Section A02
Blog #8

     "Ethnic Cover: Inquiry Into Norman Yoshiro Mineta and Post-Racial Profiling" was quite interesting to me because it shed light upon certain policies and reactions during 9/11,which were unbeknownst to me prior to this reading.  I completely agree with the author when he compares and analyzes the ethnic cover placed upon Arab Americans after 9/11 and Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.  This idea of racial profiling is important because Americans are protected under the 4th Amendment from unreasonable searches and seizures.  Thanks to Norman Mineta's work during the years after 9/11, TSA does not officially sanction racial profiling of travelers based upon their skin color.
   
     Norman Mineta was used by the US government to  help ease the racial profiling stigma placed upon certain minorities after the attacks in New York City, and this reaction was quite important because Arab Americans feared that they would receive the same fate as the thousands of Japanese during WWII.  Mineta was instrumental in ensuring that the US government would not make the same mistakes as it did in the past. Would American citizens benefit from their complete faith in the government to make "the correct choice" for the whole country?