@Alexis

You said; “America’s system of racial profiling has become a burden that must be shed if social progress is to be made in America.”

I absolutely agree for Americas current system only continues to feed the flames of racist bigotry.

“It’s one thing to be the target of an individual’s bigotry. It’s quite another to have one arm of government discriminate against an entire race and then have another one give that action legal cover.”
Source:http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/journals/bctwj/21_2/02_FTN.htm#F22

For example look how the Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

“Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. But the new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.”

They won’t just be discriminating against one race, they will be discriminating against everyone who is not white. The criteria they are using is hardly comforting:

“Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person’s race or ethnicity.”

This will not help America unite with a nationalist patriotic pro America attitude but instead this will only help to divide this great melting pot called the “United” States of America.