Posted on 12/18/2014 4:54:08 PM PST by Bon of Babble
On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy, who was haphazardly handling my open bag, with my laptop perched just inside to make space for himself on the seat next to me.
That he wanted the seat on the now full train was not the problem. That he assumed the prerogative to place his hands on my bag, grab it, shove it at me, all while my computer was unsecured and peaking out, infuriated me. I said to him, “Never put your hands on my property.”
His reply: “Well, you should listen when I talk to you.” That line there, the command that when he, whoever he was, spoke, I should automatically listen encapsulates the breadth of the battle against racism we have to fight in this country.
To have a white man in 2014 demand that I listen when he speaks is the height of racial disrespect and indignity. To have a white person shove my belongings to the side rather than simply get my attention and ask my permission is an unnecessary level of disrespect, one that conveys yet again that their needs matter more than my own.
I do not exist to make white people comfortable. The fact that I know that and act like it makes white people even more uncomfortable.
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I take a certain amount of glee knowing this woman will be miserable her whole life. Everywhere she looks she sees racism and where none exists she will invent it. She has condemned herself to a life of wallowing in her own fetid world of “microaggressions” and other liberal nonsense.
“teaches Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers”.
Reason number 99 why college tuition is so damn high.
black entitlement ruined brittney cooper’s trip to a ferguson teach-in
Its funny Ms Brittany isn’t getting much love from the those Salon readers commenting on her story, either.
> Says the biotch who thought she was entitled to two seats.
Really, and she was doing the “Ohh, I couldn’t help ignoring you” thing. Oblivious.
After dinner at a restaurant the waitress asked me if I wanted a hot fudge sunday for desert. #stoptheracism.
And talk to Michelle about what you should eat.
>>She and her article reflect a divisive agenda that should be mocked, laughed at and ridiculed.
Yep. I got cut off in traffic today by a black guy. Was that a racially-motivated attack, or was he just an a$$hole?
If anyone touches my stuff, I’m going to go off on them, but I also have enough situational awareness to see him coming before he lays a hand on my laptop. Maybe she just needs to look up and pay attention. That’s how you prevent muggings, snatch-and-grabs, and rapes too, you know.
Did you see her picture? She needs two seats.
Rude entitlement b-tch taking up two seats for herself on a crowded train.
1st sniff- liar. Made up to fit the narrative. Don’t believe a word.
She probably ought to just mark it down as a "Rosa Parks experience" and keep rollin'.
LOL
But yet she issued him an order, that’s ok though, because she speshul!
As a customer to establishments most all the clerks and sales reps are very nice and professional in general. Sometimes though a minority person will cop an attitude and return shabby, ungrateful service.
No way to treat a customer no matter who they are or what they think of them. Its not professional and management should not tolerate it from any of their employees.
Yeah, but she makes everyone else around her miserable too.
She needs to just choke on chicken bone and be done with it.
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