"linguistic profiling"

After watching the video clip in class about housing discrimination based on the "color of your voice", I started to think more about this. When I hear a voice on TV or the radio without being able to see the person speaking, I suppose I do form an opinion of the speaker's race. I think it's only natural that people of different ethnicities have different ways of speaking. But what is wrong is when people then act on those inferences. How can someone refuse an apartment to another person just because he/she thinks the other's skin color is different? To me, that is the same as not accepting someone for a job position because he/she is gay. There is just no humane basis for it. Unfortunately, this "linguistic profiling" does occur in the U.S. Fortunately, there are organizations that work to stop it. Let's hope that people can learn to stop discriminating based on accents or other aspects of voice, because really, does that tell you anything about a person's character, talents, or other attributes? I thought not.