Woman Accuses TSA of Racism, Says They Searched Her Hair Because it was ‘Poofy’
- Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:30am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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When Laura Adiele went through security at Seattle’s SeaTac airport last month, she was asked to go through a full-body scanner. She complied, but then was told she would have to be searched in one more place: Her hair.
“They were saying that my hair was poofy and that they needed to inspect it for that reason,” Adiele told MSNBC. She said TSA told her they need to inspect “anything that poofs from the body.”
She resisted at first, but said she agreed to it once TSA officers threatened to have her arrested. She’s speaking out now, charging the only reason her hair was searched is because she is black.
“I played the race card in this because I looked around and didn’t see anyone else being searched in that way,” Adiele said. “The whole thing seems fishy to me, I had TSA agents laughing at me while I was standing there, I was barefoot, everyone was watching, it was really uncomfortable.”
Afterward, she said an African American flight attendant came up to her and confided that she’d had the same experience and was seeing it happen with more frequency to other passengers.
Adiele said she filed a complaint with TSA but has not heard back.
“For me my hair is my breaking point…everyday somebody has their hand in my hair or they’re comparing it to buckweed or Aunt Jemimah,” she said.
A TSA statement to MSNBC said: “All passengers are thoroughly screened coming through the screening checkpoint. Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair where prohibited items could be hidden. TSA has no record of this passenger coming through the security checkpoint. We are happy to work with the passenger directly and address her complaints.”
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Comments (266)
momprayn
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:13amAgree – DON’T FLY !!!!! We chose to drive to Ohio from Texas instead of fly & I refuse to fly again unless it’s stopped. And yes, she shouldn’t have pulled the “race card” – ridiculous. However, I agree those TSA agents are a bunch of incompetent non-thinkers and also thieves/perverts in some cases – going by the news. This whole thing is a disaster and another sinister plot to get us all used to this type of thing of control. George Soros was involved with the shares of these machines – dumped them when it became controversial. They want us to get used to this and then have them everywhere – like malls. etc. People need to get educated that these do NOT keep us safer & protect us from terrorists !!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone thinks they “must endure” in order to be safe. The answer is to do as the Israeli’s do!!! Note their success!!!! Fight it!!!! Complain to your Reps. – if enough of us do that, something might get done. But there’s always too many “sheeple”…………Sheesh!!
Report Post »newrepublic7
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:25pmNOT flying is a good way to force the Airlines to push for change, BUT allowing the government to restrict our travel with the threat of illegal searches is not the way to handle it either…it’s a catch 22, what do we do?
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:12amNot reading your post, Priceless!!!
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:11amTrading freedom for an illusion of safety. There are better ways than what has been decided for us but then they may not be politically correct. If this were a white woman with a big bun on top of her head they would do the same thing.
Report Post »The muslim extremists are the problem and we should not be allowing anyone from those countries in and checking those who fit the profile …not grandma, babies and hair.
drago
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:08amIf blacks want to be taken seriously in cases like this, dont play the race card, since this women chose to, i care not what the TSA did to her………..
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:45pmYou are pathetic.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:34pm@Drago
“…I care not what the TSA did to her…”
You SHOULD care! Yes, she chose to be groped by the TSA, BUT that’s only because the TSA threatened to have her arrested by the police. Yes, she did play the race card, and I disappove of that dearly; however, I disapprove the unconstitutional searches toward her by the TSA even more!
Report Post »101
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:30pmTSA is required to search one black for every 10 whites they search…so where is the racism!
Report Post »duckman1911
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:08amI have never flown and I have no desire to but I did hear an excellent idea from a lady on talk radio. She said that she always refuses to go through the body scanner and in doing so she gets the hands on search. She said the gropping is worth it just to piss them off and use up their time. Just imagine if all travelers could organize a day of TSA protest. Pick a busy day around a major holiday and everyone that flies nation wide refuses to go through the body scanner and forces them to do a hands on search. That would overload the TSA. Planes would be backed up on the runways or would be taking off without passengers
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:17amThis racism crap is getting out of hand. Here is an article that illustrates how this “your a racist” crap is costing you ALOT of money.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:51pmThis TSA crap is out of hand.
And it’s costing you BILLIONS for a false sense of security.
Sheep!
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:38pmV MAN MACE… are you not in the same flock? We are all sheep, until we start shotting back… Im all in, but you take the first couple of shots….
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:07amLooking for the dreaded “Hair Bomb!” E=MC haired! I think a TSA agent has a hair fettish.I hope Marge Simpson doesn’t travel by air soon!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:14amThe imminent energy crisis was going to be both apocalyptic and unavoidable, and it was going to arrive sooner than expected. Like any “well-planned” government operation, the planning and initial preparations for what became 9/11 had begun in the Clinton administration as a contingency plan. That’s when the 19 so-called hijackers (and/or their handlers) began establishing their legends. But the Caspian news would account for the absolutely unfathomable number of mistakes that were made in both the plan’s execution and the subsequent cover-up. It was a rush job. Quickly, any number of classified or once-classified contingency plans for a staged attack on the US — like Operation Northwoods — came down off the shelf. As Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard shows, the need for such an event had already been acknowledged in 1997 — conveniently, just as al Qaeda and the Taliban were emerging as world and regional players. Operation Northwoods, declassified in the late 1990s, had been planned in 1962.
911 was an inside job
and so the TSA was created to become the next Nazi
FEMACAMP Guard system
If you really believe the official 911 story
then all we needed to do was to add an extra door to isolate the
pilots cabin from the passengers, but NO we have never to this day addressed that
just Naked Body scanners and Pat downs for the Slaves and the death of our
constitution.
Just think the next attack will be a mall
Report Post »then Naked scans to buy food.
Do you feel safe no
V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:52pmResist the NAZI POLICE STATE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA
Report Post »cabnetdude
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:04amGet used to it! You now live in the Nazi states where you will soon be cavity searched just to go to the mall. Isn’t the Dark Lords “grope & change just wonderful?
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:03amIf we just target those of the islamic ilk then maybe the rest of us could go on with life
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:54pmNo profiling of Muslims!
Profile the false-flag terrorists at the FBI, CIA, BATFE, DEA, and other federal agencies!
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03amThat so called “Race Card” needs to be taken out of the deck. Everyone is tired of hearing that contrived crap. Every white citizen should play the “Reverse Discrimination” card every time they are offended by a black. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Flood the federal court system with so many “reverse discrimination” cases that Eric Holder prays that he wakes up in the morning Hispanic.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:57pmRacism does exist…nobody can’t take that card out of the deck. It’s there to stay.
The way the TSA hires idiots without basic education makes stupid incidents like this all the more likely.
Abolish the TSA.
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03amBlacks who use the race card always succeed financially. Muslim’s use (C.A.I.R.) who learned great lessons from the blacks in claiming race was the issue.(NAACP) and gays (LGTB) “Obama’s people”, are following their lead. Attorney’s are welcoming these type of cases, because America is sick with P.C. and it’s almost a sure windfall. White people who are, straight, pro traditional family, anti crime, pro life, God loving, will be only a memory.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03amMuch of the patriot act is unconstitutional and the tsa is the spawn of the patriot act,the tsa violates the fourth amendment everyday and now they’re unionized,so we get sexually assaulted and humiliated but hey were safe right? We‘re losing our constitutional rights daily and once these bureaucracys are created we can’t put them out of our misery.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:59amThey are obviously racist. Let our side start filing law suits to that effect. They favor muslims, also. THE TSA MUST BE SUED OUT OF EXISTENCE.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:55pmUm..YEA!!
WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET RID OF THE NAZI TSA!!!
PEE ON THEM!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:14pmDon’t care much for DHS Janet or the TSA, but the first time one
Report Post »of these Bomb Bozos get through and brings down a plane, It’s
going to be awful quiet from the peolpe ****** and moaning about
our Security..Lighten Up and go with the flow, with all the people
that go thru screening each day, I think they are doing a great job..
No I don’t work for the TSA, Just a concerned occasional flyer..TKS.
NOBAMA-2012
V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 3:35pmNope!
Not letting my nuts be fondled when I have more of a chance of being stung to death by KILLER BEES than dying in a terrorist attack!
Nope!
Not when the Feds are false-flag terror extraordinaires!
Nope!
Not when they ARE NOT CAPABLE of STOPPING ONE TERROR ATTACK!!
Nope!
They are NOT CAPABLE of PROTECTING US!!
Nope!
IT IS OUR DUTY INDIVIDUALLY!!
NOPE!
NOT DELEGATING MY PROTECTION TO POORLY TRAINED CHILD MOLESTING POWER TRIPPING GOONS!
NOPE!!!!
HELLLLLLLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
RESIST THE *****NAZI***** POLICE STATE!
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:58amI wear an old fashioned bee hive style with my long hair so I always knew if I had to go through, they would search inside my hair and most probably mess it up. I refuse to fly anyhow. Both my husband and I have quit flying and I wish the rest of the stupid Americans would wake up and realize that they are stopping our liberties from being restored by flying.
Report Post »Blacks always nearly play the race card. I am sick of it like the rest of you.
mutslie
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:48amThey are not black ‘just *****’S & negress’s, ‘they make me sick & I’m from another country, ‘what a ’damm joke they are ‘mineing your guilt, ‘good for nothings’ most of them! They will pay dearly in a few’ years, if Obummer’ation (BO) gets back in’……….’ VOTE America 2012
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:59pmYou better hope her race card gets the TSA NAZIS abolished.
Then you can thank her.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:57amInteresting how she stated “ I played the Race Card in this”. Looking for something free are we, money perhaps? They played the I don’t care card a ruffled you hair do. SO WHAT. You got searched, you elected to get search when you bought your ticket to fly, you knew the rules when you bought the ticket, so why cry Race. So many whinners out there crying because they got search why don’t you just walk to your destination or drive, save this forum for something that matters. Race that Dummy.
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:45pmThe TSA wouldn’t threaten her with arrest. They would simply deny her the ability to board the plane and send her on her way.
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:57amThose poor bastids of TSA have had it now, they have ofended one of america’s privileged class. That is one who is privleged to call all outhers racist. There is no higher calling for black’s than to be calling outher people racist, It is a sign of intellectual superiority in the liberal black voter block.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:07pmLMAO!
The stereotypes are astounding!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:56amHow about accusing them of being STUPID.
Report Post »newrepublic7
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:08pmExactly ! This isn’t racism, it’s tyranny. (Feels the same though doesn’t it?) Are you telling me a Black TSA agent would NOT have checked her hair, NO they are there to exert the government’s will and force compliance. OR YOU WILL BE ARRESTED!
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:46amIsraeli trained police officers is what we need!!!!!!!!!! Blacks always cry racism and now no one even listens to you anymore!!!!!!!!
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:35amwhat we need is, people to be better at mathmatics. now a days it’s all “1 + 1 = 3″, and if you try to show them different, they call you names and sue.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:43amSo typical of the blacks to play the race card.
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:01amracism is good. We should be able to chose. It is our right. I don’t want no intergration!
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 2:26pm@Mossbrain and LoadingMyClips
You are both idiotic racists! Go someplace else, trolls!
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:43amThese TSA screenings are a lot of things (stupid for one) but they’re not “racist”.
Report Post »If your hair is big enough to conceal something they’ll search it. Period.
MsCluskey
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:42amBenjamin Franklin said it best: Those who would trade Liberty for Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This is our Republic. Why are we letting the Federal Government dictate how, why, and where we live? Are we children to be suckled at the teat of the Feds? Disgusting notion.
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:11amI think the progressives took the real life of B.F. out of the history books and replaced it with a paragraph about him being nothing more than an old angry white slave owner, along with all the other founding fathers that formed this terrible, racist, planet destroying country!
Report Post »CrackersSmurf
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:41amGEE who would think someone would cry racism…Even tho they are strictly patting whites for the most part. Get real.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:00amReally ! Sounds like a Libo whiner. told ObaMSN she was being
Report Post »picked on, AWWWW Aunt Jamama, NAA !! sounds like shes been
there before..Do these get paid for these interviews ?, if so seems
like a good way to make some easy spending $$$…Just saying…
NOBAMA-2012..
tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:15amThey’re not “strictly patting whites.” That‘s just all that’s amped IN HERE! Get out and look at other info.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:27amMIBUGNU, you officially make theblaze list of racist remarks, commenters.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:09pmLmfao at all the racism!
These are PAID TSA TROLLS!
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:40pm@V-Man Mace
Sadly, you may be right about that. How shameful of them to allow racism to cloud their judgement.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:42pmIs being “racist” the worst thing a person can be???? PC culture has taught us so….I can think of worse… Communist, Abortionist, Propogandist, Hedonist, Atheist…. lets get rid of these “ists” first…..
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:40amPrivatize the TSA with Israel’s Secret Service; we will reduce costs and stop stealing the rights of US Citizens.
The new contracted TSA would be pro-active vs. re-active!
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:39amIntolerable. I would have asked another passenger to photo/video the procedure and take down names. And if TSA agents were laughing at her…..the nazi’s laughed all around the camps..
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:18amWould like to add that I’m not impressed with her “playing the race card”. Many women (and some men) of all ethnic groups wear their hair in so-called “poofy” styles. What’s next….checking a childs braids just in case?
The intolerable part is the TSA can get away with doing whatever they want in situations they deem “possibly dangerous”. Yet muslim women walk right on by the security checks…you can hide a heck of lot more explosives under those big robes than in a hair bun.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:23amMIDWEST I hope you will always opt out of the Scanners
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:11pmI just opted out of flying in general.
I’m not too keen on being off the ground with someone else at the controls, anyway.
Report Post »So
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:38amTSA. Equal opportunity and hands on.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:37amDon’t FLY.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03amI wear, what some consider, a rather large cowboy hat. And the TSA wants to take it off so they can look inside of it. I don’t see them doing that to anyone else. They are profiling me! They don’t like cowboys!….WA WA!!
I saw them search a baby’s blanket!…..They don’t like babies!
I don‘t like the TSA and I won’t stick up for them. But people like this woman aggravate me to no end. Nobody likes the treatment they get from the TSA. But she has to play the race card.
Report Post »I mean she doesn‘t complain about getting ’felt up’, but claims racism because someone in the past made fun of the Brillo Pad on her head?…..Give me a break!
tower7femacamp
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:18amBANJAR that will work until the scanners are in grocery stores…
Your attitude is just what the Nazi’s ordered.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 1:01pmTower, once that happens,there’s going to be civil unrest for sure…
Report Post »4SmallGov
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 2:10amFLY ….Don’t use the race card. Race is not the problem it’s an out of control government.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:37amWhat’s next? Scrotum hair because it’s puffy? lmao
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03amWho is Buckweed???
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:07amThis woman is freaking crazy, but the race card has been thrown yet again. gotta love minorities trying to find ways out of things.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:17amDon’t try any of that buckweed. It will make your hair poofy and make you throw out unwarranted accusations of rascisim.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:21amJust what do you think is next ?
Report Post »I say more and more TSA thugs everywhere
Funny how a broke Nation can always afford to pay for tyranny
V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 12:48pmThe NAZI TSA is what’s crazy.
You complacent sheep are what’s crazy.
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