He thought back to that moment, at age ten, when his baseball bat and puppy were taken from him and his family was imprisoned without due process because of the sound of their name and the appearance of their faces. He refused to do that to anyone else. So he sent a letter to all U.S. airlines saying they were forbidden from using racial profiling or subjecting Muslim or Middle Eastern passengers to extra scrutiny. He said it was the “right and constitutional thing” based on his own experience as someone who had lost the most basic human rights during his childhood incarceration.
