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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No, she is a firm believer of permanent victimhood privilege. On a crowded train, your bags go on the floor, Brittney.
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.
It’s becoming difficult if not impossible to take any part of the “civil rights movement” seriously.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I’ll bet her friends call her “Bliss” because she sure is ignorant.
"...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/
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
The civil rights movement was a success. This is something else entirely.
“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?
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.
Cooper’s dealing with a racist all right, and it’s the one in the mirror
Sure was, but has since been hijacked by the Race Grievance Industry.
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.
Since 2008.
I think that Brittany made up the story!
Make her prove it.
And why black men prefer white women.
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