Unveiled light-skinned Muslim women evade airport racial profiling

Evidence

Sommer: You know, you take off your shoes. My kids are used to it because we travel to New York quite often. They take off their shoes, they are cute, they take off their little jackets and stuff. [But] because I’m not veiled, they assume I’m French before anything else. So no, I don’t. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 226

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘they assume I’m French’ detail is a light, telling micro-anecdote about how appearance overrides religious identity at checkpoints.