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Salon Writer Accuses "White Guy" of Racism after He Tried to Sit Next to her on Crowded Train
Pundit Press ^ | 12/18/14 | Aurelius

Posted on 12/18/2014 3:21:27 PM PST by rightistight

In an article published yesterday, Salon writer Brittney Cooper wrote about an encounter on a subway that she deemed extremely racist.

The article, called Listen when I talk to you!”: How white entitlement marred my trip to a Ferguson teach-in, Cooper began the story by explaining that she was on a train bound for Ferguson for a "teach-in."

At the time of the encounter, Cooper writes, the train was "full." More than that, she couldn't hear anything going on and was ignoring people trying to sit down because she had her "beats headphones on." And though the train was full, she decided that she could go ahead and take an extra seat for her carry-on bag.

Then it happened, Cooper writes. "I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on toward me," she explains. "Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy." Stunningly, the "white guy" wanted to take the seat next to Cooper and was handing her the bag so that he wouldn't sit on it.

Cooper took immediate exception to the gesture and said, “Never put your hands on my property.” To Cooper's amazement, the "white guy" had the gall to say that he asked her to move her bag so he could sit, and that she didn't hear him because of her headphones, saying, “Well, you should listen when I talk to you.”

Cooper explains then that she knew she was dealing with a racist.

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To: rightistight

No, she is a firm believer of permanent victimhood privilege. On a crowded train, your bags go on the floor, Brittney.


21 posted on 12/18/2014 4:08:57 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: rightistight
The fact that Cooper should not have taken an extra seat on a crowded train never occurred to the author.

From the picture I'm guessing it was really 2 seats for her and 1 for her bag.

Seriously, I am fed up with blacks that think white people are not entitled to simple common courtesy because they are white. It's coarse, it's ignorant and it's bigoted.

90% of this behavior is directly attributable to Barack Obama. Our post racial president.

And, in part thanks to our Racist in Chief, I never go into Louisville not carrying.

22 posted on 12/18/2014 4:16:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
She's not petite:


23 posted on 12/18/2014 4:18:58 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rightistight

It’s becoming difficult if not impossible to take any part of the “civil rights movement” seriously.


24 posted on 12/18/2014 4:20:16 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I recently got friended with a former HS classmate who is black (class of 70) and married to a white woman. He had a picture of their 3 daughters with him for his birthday. All 3 were just very good looking girls. I suppose some might say it’s racist for me to say that these young women got the best attributes from both races.


25 posted on 12/18/2014 4:20:55 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: rightistight

Where I live, putting your bag on the seat can carry a stiff fine. Even before they put that in place, it was always considered bad manners, unless it absolutely couldn’t be avoided.


26 posted on 12/18/2014 4:22:36 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: rightistight

Typical micro-aggression victim. Reminds me of the “Princess and the Pea” fable where the irritant is so tiny that only the most sensitive ass can detect it.


27 posted on 12/18/2014 4:25:43 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: rightistight

In the past, she would have been a great person for the Alka Seltzer commercial which had a guy (who was bloated) saying “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”.

Fat and stupid is no way to go through life but this seat-pig doesn’t seem to know that. I hope someone disinfects that subway seat ASAP. Stupidity can spread by contact with a leftist, you know!


28 posted on 12/18/2014 4:26:17 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: rightistight

I’ll bet her friends call her “Bliss” because she sure is ignorant.


29 posted on 12/18/2014 4:31:44 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: Mr Rogers
YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!

"...She is a regular contributor at Salon.com and her cultural commentary has appeared at Ebony.com, TheRoot.com, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, TV Guide, Huffington Post Live, Colorlines.com, NPR, and Al Jazeera America.

A native of Ruston, Louisiana, Dr. Cooper considers herself a small-town Southern girl at heart, which explains her affinity for soul food, crunk music, and warm weather..."

LOL!!! Oh that is rich!!

http://www.brittneycooper.com/

30 posted on 12/18/2014 4:32:37 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: dhs12345

More irony likely unintended by your post is that Parks was a purposeful activist

Not some extra from The Help.....the reluctant hero thing the progressive narrative portends

She was just another freedom rider


31 posted on 12/18/2014 4:33:11 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: windsorknot

The civil rights movement was a success. This is something else entirely.


32 posted on 12/18/2014 4:33:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mr Rogers

“The fact that Cooper should not have taken an extra seat on a crowded train never occurred to the author.”

‘Course not, she be a walkin’, talkin’, wide load her self.

And then comes this jewel in her ‘professional description’:
““A scholar of Black women’s intellectual history, Black feminist thought, . . .”. That should not take up too much of her obviously low memory capacity.

How many Black, female Nobel Laurates are there?


33 posted on 12/18/2014 4:37:35 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: rightistight
"Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy."

Imagine if someone white said that about a black person. What a piece of hateful work she is. Talk about looking for reasons to be perpetually angry.

34 posted on 12/18/2014 4:39:02 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: rightistight

Cooper’s dealing with a racist all right, and it’s the one in the mirror


35 posted on 12/18/2014 4:42:33 PM PST by blueplum
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To: trisham
The civil rights movement was a success.

Sure was, but has since been hijacked by the Race Grievance Industry.

36 posted on 12/18/2014 4:43:11 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: dhs12345

The writer bell hooks (her spelling) did the same s*** on a plane years ago. She ordered the white man in the seat next to her to move so her sistah friend could sit there.

He refused, and for the rest of the flight, ms. hooks threatened to kill him. Duly reported & nothing done, of course. Another empowered & entitled African Goddess.


37 posted on 12/18/2014 4:48:14 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: windsorknot

Since 2008.


38 posted on 12/18/2014 4:49:56 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rightistight

I think that Brittany made up the story!

Make her prove it.


39 posted on 12/18/2014 4:52:11 PM PST by BobNative
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To: Redbob
And people wonder why black men don’t want to marry...

And why black men prefer white women.

40 posted on 12/18/2014 4:58:04 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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