An anger-stoking and peace-stultifying news item published on October 26, 2009, by The Associated Press has revealed, once again, the simmering tensions surrounding racial profiling and ethnic segmentation in the United States of America. Larry Whitten, a 63-year-old Virginia-born conglomerateur known to turn around failing hotels, recently created a national controversy when he purchased a previously failing hotel in the small town of Taos, New Mexico, and then asked his predominantly Hispanic staff to make some radical and unthinkable changes!