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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“...Burt Bacharach’s opinion ...”
He’d write a song.
I see this all the time on the DC Metro.
People take the aisle seat, put on headphones (often dropping a bag into the window seat), and do their best to ignore anyone who approaches wanting to take the empty seat. Then act all put upon when someone engages them to let them take it.
I’ve never paid attention to the racial makeup of those involved, but after this article you bet I will.
Khent discovered him and now she’s got that sappy, soggy crap blaring all the time. Yuck.
Yeah, but when Khent starts singing “raindrops keep falling on my head”... it ain’t rain...
Put him back in the damn closet, and lock it...
The sumbitch keeps breaking out. Locking her in the trunk doesn’t work either; people think there’s a dog whining in there.
Houdini would be proud...
... or horrified...
He’d run away!
Watching Oprah reruns and eating 4 bags of chips every day is no way to go through life, Big Mama!
Oh, c’mon...she’s a BBW. She’s curvy. She’s “Rubenesque”.
She’s an empowered woman!
She’s... Who am I kidding, I can’t write this s**t anymore!
YUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Exponential MOOOOOO...
HA!!! Nice pic!
2 times LOL!!
Vomitus profusi : )
“..Vomitus profusi ...”
...ad infinitum, ad nauseaum, ASAP, etc., and et al...
Et tu, SJ??
Powerpukus projectitatus spewii???
did she pay for 2 seats.... doubtful
I remember someone posted FBI statistics that said white rapists statistically never rape black women. Not that it never happens, it is just so rare as to be hard to measure.
I think the loud, ghetto-mouthed black women are just very angry generally.
She has a finely honed racism detector that gives her false positives.
close enough : )
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