Noonan's racial profiling

[Stephen E Philion]

On Peggy Noonan's latest appeal to good Americans to stop middle eastern
looking men and interrogate them if they look suspicious, (see
http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=95001349) I sent her a
little note:
Dear Ms. Noonan:
I imagine the following occurs when you ask what would have happened if
you had (as you believe you should have) interrogated two Arab looking men
filming Rockefeller Center:

Peggy: Excuse me sir, just why are you filming the Rockefeller center?

Arab looking man: Lo siento, que dices? No hablo ingles...

Peggy: Ah hah, I knew it, an Arab terrorist!!

Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
Honolulu, HI 96822