In Defense of Civil Liberty
The editorial "In Defense of Profiling," by Sam Stein (The Dartmouth, Jan. 22) is a clear indication that the United States still has notions of who is an American and who is not. That Stein and others like him, since there are many, would call for the mass suspicion, inspection and dehumanization of a group of people not only shows that Stein himself has never been the victim of racial profiling, but that he does not understand that the practice itself is based on racial stereotypes that rob people of their rights. What Stein needs to understand is that racial categories are not fixed, nor can you identify someone's ethnicity or allegiance to the United States strictly by the color of that person's skin.