With hair pat-downs, complaints of racial bias
Ms. Nance is the second black woman I'm aware of within a month who says she was racially profiled when a T.S.A. officer...
From the New York Times
TIMERY SHANTE NANCE is an African-American woman who has a thing about her hair. “I don’t use chemicals or straighteners,” she said. “It’s just my natural texture, and I wear it in a normal-looking puff.”
Now she wonders, as some other black women evidently do, whether the Transportation Security Administration also has a thing about their hair.
Ms. Nance is the second black woman I’m aware of within a month who says she was racially profiled when a T.S.A. officer insisted on publicly patting down her hair after she had already gone though a full-body scan without setting off any alarm.
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