Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Stripped of More than My Clothes

Daria MonDesire says when she was strip-search that they stripped more than her clothes, because she felt the reason why they did it was not good enough for her. She stated that two times in her life where she had to remove her clothes against her will, one was when she was raped and the other was when U.S. Customs Service strip-searched her. Customs Service stated that she was wearing "bulky clothes" whe she stated her bulky clothes included a blackless sundress and sandals. She was forced to remove her underwear when she felt ther was not a vaild reason for it. She then states how over 50 plus thousand of people searched at their international airport 96% of them had no drugs or contraband on them. This is odd to me, only because of the high number of no drugs found with so many people checked. Then she feels thats its a race reason why she was checked. Saying how this is not the only time she has felt this way, when several years ago she was the only person checked and was the only afro-american on the plane. She then say if the airlines want to find drugs then they should check Martha Steward, members of congress, Ivanna Trump. I think she feels discriminated and is frustrated and from reading this essay she has a reason too.

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