Young Muslim men are repeatedly randomly selected for searches when flying

Evidence

Anwar told me what it was like traveling home from college: … Freshman year, I would take planes home every now and then, just because I’ll get sick of the train because it would be like six hours if you get stalled, every single time. And then there [was] a string of three or four times in a row where, I was just by myself, just had a backpack, so I guess, I mean, I might’ve looked shady—just me, by myself, with a backpack—but yeah, every single time, just randomly selected, randomly selected, three or four times in a row. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 199

Categorization

• QUESTION: Anwar self-doubts (‘I might’ve looked shady’) — evidence of internalized suspicion that deserves analytic attention later in the book.
• SHARE: The pattern of ‘randomly selected’ back-to-back trips is a concrete, citable anecdote for anyone writing on biometric or pre-crime screening.