Check mate, checkpoint.

http://mydd.com/users/restore-fairness/posts/checkpoint-nation-building-community-across-borders

This blog discusses a recent video that illustrates the aftermath racism of 9/11. According to the author of this blog, the video explores how to achieve justice and fairness by illuminating racial profiling.
As a first generation Mexican American woman, I have experienced racial profiling and racism first hand. Living in south Texas while I grew up always provided comfort because there were so many people who shared my same culture and ideas. However, the ones that didn't made life miserable. My father was always a very hard working man, but was fired or laid off of jobs without reason. Strangers always question whether my light-skinned brother was my mother's child. Sometimes, even other Hispanics turned their noses down on us. This directly affected me and made me realize the cruelty of human being from a very young age.
This country that was founded on values of freedom and equality is not very tolerant of those coming to this country to pursue those dreams and ideas. Beginning with slavery and migrants who were anything except British, freedom and equality have always been the first things to be suppressed. After the attacks of 9/11, I witnessed how precautionary and offensive the entire country was to not only Muslims, but any Middle Eastern race who resembled Iranians or Iraqis.
I agree with the author's conclusion of asking us, as Americans, to set aside our differences and to unite to reaffirm the real American values.