[smalltownslick]

EVERY woman has flinched when strange men get too close, stare, or in some way make them uncomfortable.

Isn’t that the truth??? As one who moved to the South less than 10 years ago, I still deal with this nutty phenomenon - for some reason, redneck guys just can’t stop themselves from stopping and offering a ride to any woman they see walking down the street. (As if it’s somehow not acceptable to walk down the street!) In their world, they think they are being nice, caring Southern men. But, good grief, DO THEY NOT KNOW THAT WOMEN ARE CONSTANTLY INSTRUCTED NEVER to accept a ride or get involved with a total stranger?? It’s a cultural divide, but you would think by now they would have figured it out. It’s a line not to be crossed. We are strangers - don’t offer me a ride. Ande leave me alone, cause I am about to get nasty with you for violating my space.

[Godwin1]

Actually, in Obama’s tale, his grandma was hassled at the bus stop, not on the bus. She gave the panhandler a dollar but he was aggressively demanding more when the bus came and she was able to board it. Obama’s doesn't say, but apparently his grandma was alone at the bus stop and there were no other pedestrians nearby. The story came up because she asked grandpa to give her a lift to work the next morning. She did not want to wait alone at that bus stop again. Can anyone but a race-hustling demagogue blame her? Did this make her the moral equivalent of the venomous, frothing-at-the-mouth, racist Wright?