That’s actually not an example of someone with an American passport being prevented in because of their skin color.

How would a guard know who a bag belongs to?

What is the incident? The security guard being nice?

> I'm well aware the color your skin matters a lot, but your passport also matters, especially at the border.

The way things are currently operating, the border is probably the place you have to worry the least as it's staffed by CBP folks which have probably had training: it's the rest of the country with ICE randos running around that seem to be the worrisome areas. Just ask the South Koreans:

* https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/12/s...

> You're better off with white skin and a US passport than with white skin and a British passport, but you're also better off with brown skin and a US passport than brown skin and a British passport […]

Are we talking at the border or the rest of the country? At the border with CBP a US passport would probably be best. With the rest of the country, with ICE, white skin and a British (or any) passports would probably be 'best'.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_while_black

hell of a typo in that last sentence, and I can't edit.

I meant to say "doesn't mean you're not less likely to be targeted".

>You're better off with white skin and a US passport than with white skin and a British passport, but you're also better off with brown skin and a US passport than brown skin and a British passport and that's still better than brown skin and a third-world passport.

Tell me you're not an American without telling me you're not an American.

I hate to say it, but to many (racist) Americans, brown skin < anything else ... and ICE has a disproportionate number of those people, because they deliberately hire them.