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Debate of Racial Profiling in Post-September 11th America More so in recent times due to the horrific events of September 11th, the controversy of racial profiling has been one of the many arguments between conservatives and liberals. Liberals state that racial profiling is racist and moraly wrong. They also point out to what racial profiling could lead to, such as intermant camps. Conservatives point out that it is more important to use “commen sense” then to be politicaly correct. But both sides of the argument are missing an important point. At 9:03 on April 19, 1995 a bomb inside a rental truck exploded destroying the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people and wounded 500 others in what was the worst act of terrorism to that date on American soil. The terrorist however was not a middle eastern muslim man, he was a white, all-american boy named Timothy McVeigh, who could very well have been the boy next door. Profiling was already underway at the FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit, where most investigators thought the bombing was done by forign terrorist.
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