print“To decrease the risks of an extremely dangerous job, [taxi drivers] profile potential passengers, taking into account a composite of characteristics, of which race is one. I venture that if human beings were not in the habit of constructing such cognitive categories and using these to predict and protect against risk and danger, our prehistoric ancestor Homo erectus might not have stuck around long enough to evolve into Homo sapiens.”
The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily column, “Rational Profiling: Cabbies Do It Too.”