No but really, shut up.

I saw this in the news last week about this woman, Shoshana Hebshi, who got detained on 9/11, along with two other men on her flight.

You can read the story here. And you can see her blog entry about it here.

It does suck that she had to go through such an incident. Really, I'm not trying to downplay the shock and embarrassment of the whole thing for her. I'm sure it was awful and scary and I am sorry for her. But seriously, I have to just say get over it.

The fact is that this country is constantly targeted by terrorists, who happen to fall into a particular ethnicity. When there is a threat to our country, like the possible threat on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this year, how are we supposed to stop it from happening? Racial profiling is unfair, yes, but sometimes its the only way. I will say its probably a lot better than being blown up, right?

{{....yesss, I'll give a minute to think about that one.....yep, that's what I thought.}}

If a woman who looks like me has threatened to blow up a building (or insert any appropriate scenario you want), then I can't say that I blame any law enforcement individual for stopping me simply because I look like that individual. I realize that this is a slightly different scenario, but you get the point.

Her husband used social media to express that she was detained because of the color of her skin (paraphrasing). This just really, really infuriates me. It's so dramatic! What if some other person on her plane was detained and actually had a bomb...would people have been so outraged then? It's only "the color of his/her skin" when something suspicious isn't found. But if authorities searched a person of a certain ethnicity and actually found something, then what? Was he racially profiled before he was deemed a threat? Hmmm.

I am sure I would be extremely upset if this happened to me, but it just seems that sometimes America is expected to have everything perfect at all times and to be respectful of every single race and religion, all the while being 100 percent politically correct and keeping every single American citizen safe. I'm sorry, but the keeping us safe part is much more pressing in my opinion than being respectful of the millions of people part.

At this point, if the way to keep passengers on planes (and any other place for that matter) is to do things that aren't perfectly comfortable and politically correct, I welcome it. America may not be perfect, but we strive to make every single person who lives here happy. But first comes safety. Unfortunately, everything changed on 9/11/01. And while our country works out the kinks and fine tunes the safety strategies, I'll gladly have patience and understanding.

And the people who want to sit back and complain about every little thing, yet still expect to be safe in this country should try to swallow the pill that is reality and then maybe drink a cup of shut the eff up. Or better yet, I encourage them to get out of this country. Go live in some other country and see if you don't come back singing America's praises, flaws and all. Yes, I've done that. So there.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown

I would just like to insert the word *bitches* after "flag". Seems appropriate. ;-)