Random Selection
Being the only person chosen on every airport you visit for a full body
search is not the definition of random selection. When you are told that the
search is random yet you are the only person it happens to every single time
also does not help. To further aid your cause, you are told not to smile for
every photo in an official document so that you look like you are a member of
ISIS. This must be the reason for your random selection.
A wise man once said “It is nice to be important, but it is more
important to be nice.” In line with this people only remember how you made them
feel. And every European Airport security official has made me feel like a
terrorist. Similar emotions resonate when you are the only person of colour in
your workplace in a particular position of power or specific level of income.
This could possibly be as a consequence of our history as a country and one is
made to feel that you do not belong. In these situations one has to remember the
quote by Eleanor Roosevelt “ No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent”
The human factor plays a big role in all of this and we as scientists
seem to forget that we are dealing with people and not just numbers. How many
articles, books, speeches, students and even how much money you make, have
little or no influence if you behave like a prick. They way we relate to each
other and treat one another on the other hand has a spin off effect….so pay it
forward.
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