JFK terminal 5

The 2 ladies were Coffew and Raftul or something like that. In August, I went through and saw them and everything was normal. WHY was everything normal? Because I went through security with a hat on and took it off when asked to. 

But what was different about my next trip I took a month ago. I was actually wearing my hijab or headscarf. It was a fun pretty scarf and didn’t scream TERRORIST. But to these dumb bitches it did. 

So anyways right when we walked in they were suspicious. We were AMERICANS being randomly checked because I looked like a terrorist. They searched me and went through every single paper, undergarment, cards, scarves,EVERYTHING!!! In front of me. 

The one lady kept asking me questions and tried to be friendly and I was giving her attitude and told her I would not want to talk to her because this is HARASSMENT! She said it’s not because they have been checking many people. I looked around me like she asked me to do and I saw nobody getting pulled aside or checked. Why? Because there were no known muslims going through security at that time. 

The male officers thought these 2 ladies were stupid for what they did because we looked like normal people to them. But these 2 white racists had to check us and probably felt stupid they found nothing. 

They asked me if I wanted to put my own things away and I said NO! Just the way you took my things out, you are going to put them back the way you found it. And when she walked away, I looked at her and said you only did this because I was wearing this on my head. And she walked away. 

But it’s okay! I will see these ladies again without my hijab and ask them if they remember me! This will be interesting. 

By: nella