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.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The fact that Salon would publish such a ridiculous piece of crap like this shows the direction liberal America is going. If anyone doubts liberals want a race war, read this. Helter Skelter, baby.
At the beginning of the article she said she was wearing headphones. I don't doubt she was oblivious to the world, and perhaps random racist white guy was trying to get her attention but she was zoned out. Thus he moved the bag. If you are selfish and leave your bag in an adjacent seat on a crowded train - don't take affront if someone moves your bag - even if you do esteem yourself to be royalty.
But we must understand - She was entitled to two seats because or her rather ample derriere.
She states in the article “Beats headphones on, lost in thought” and then has the nerve to get all bent that he suggested that she listen. Does anyone believe that he “commanded” her when he spoke? He probably politely asked a few times if she’d move her stuff so he could sit and she either didn’t hear because the music was too loud (her fault) or intentionally ignored him (to be a bitch and provoke a confrontation). A person can only be polite so long before they decide to either walk away or escalate things. Since the train was full he decided to escalate by creating a space to sit. Chubster freaked out because he’s the antithesis of what she teaches. He’s neither female nor “African”.
But how dare he choose to be a white guy. And how dare he choose to want to sit down while riding the train. The nerve!
He probably thought she was ignoring him. With her attitude she probably was. She has a chip on her shoulder just waiting to be offended.
No ‘privilege’, lady, I bet he just though you were a c**** for taking a seat with your bag on a full train. But he was nice about it.
Author ‘teaches Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers’. IOW, one angry beyotch. She’s probably a friend of Madonna Constantine.
Yet she demanded he listen when she spoke!
The fact that I know that and act like it makes white people even more uncomfortable.
Yeah, right. only stupid Leftists! You’re not important enough to make me uncomfortable.
Good find! Al Sharpton wannabe.
Kinda OT but your post reminded me of something. I love books by Grace Livingston Hill. In the one I was reading the other day one of the characters was telling a friend to start looking at someone’s shoes if they were getting to you. She said it would not be long before the person would start moving her feet around trying to figure out what was wrong with her shoes and feet. If I ever get the chance, I am going to try that just to see reactions.
If I were going to Rutgers, I'd like to take her class as an elective just for the entertainment value, except that the 'F' she'd surely give me would hurt my GPA.
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When I read this part of her article, I laughed so hard my wife heard the laughter from downstairs and wanted to know what was so funny! This woman needs to claim her two seats on the Mother Ship.
It’s freaking New York, you racist witch.
I personally hate the train for the crowded cars and the aggressive passengers, trying to squeeze inside.
I don’t blame them for behavior.
Most are just decent people and you gotta make room.
While in Oklahoma I wouldn’t sit next to someone in crowded restaurant, that is not a reality in crowded places like Manhattan.
Unless you want to wait forever.
Then the people who didn’t wait will be seated before you
The embodiment and definition of she-boon.
“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.”
Wrong, bimbo. Not uncomfortable. Irritated to have to deal with the entitlement mentality with an attitude that you think you deserve to take up your alloted space and someone else’s just because you’re black.
If the train was “now full”, use a little critical reasoning and figure out without someone having to ask you to move your “work carry-on” so they could use a seat. It’s called “courtesy” and being a good citizen. That way, you won’t have to be offended by “the white hand” that obviously makes you “uncomfortable.”
Get over it and you won’t have to spend life feeling constantly victimized.
Imagine the cries of racism if a white author had said “...peering out the window, I suddenly saw a black hand shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a black guy”
That “interracial spaces” comment did it for me.
I wonder how she ever got a doctorate-——they seem to be a dime a dozen these days.
She would be better off seeing a psychiatrist-—there is obviously something very wrong.
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Judging by her photo, I’d say that between her carry-on bag and her butt, she was taking up *three* seats.
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