She and her article reflect a divisive agenda that should be mocked, laughed at and ridiculed.
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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She and her article reflect a divisive agenda that should be mocked, laughed at and ridiculed.
I guess if it had been a black woman treating her that way there would have been no story...?
Says the biotch who thought she was entitled to two seats.
Was that article for real?
How often is that person let out of the institution?
Are there guards to keep the writer from harming normal people when taking her walks?
Although I can certainly understand why she might feel she needs two seats on the train.
If we have a full train, WTF was this person taking up a seat with their bag? I guess if they paid for two seats that would be OK...
feh... 
She ain’t no Amber Lamps, that is fo’sur!
She should pay for three seats. One for her bag and two for her fat ass.
E—ewe....I’d rather stand the entire trip.
Photo suggests she might need two (or more) seats.
Yeah, I'm surprised there was room left to sit next to her.
Looks. Like. She should have payed for two seats any wayshe was in the wrong to start with.
The patients have taken over the asylum.
I guess white entitlement hasn’t stopped this b*tch from being a lard ass
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.
She looks like she would take up at least 2 and possibly 3 seats plus room for her paperwork and computer.
She is entitled to all that space because she paid for one ticket.
I have an idea...
Just another uppity, racist, fat black woman, with NO MANNERS or Common Decency, if she wasn’t so involved in her pathetic music maybe she would have noticed she was occupying 2 seats. She should have moved her crap before the man got to the seat. I hate people like this, self absorbed,rude, basically just an a$%hole. She’s lucky it wasn’t me, I would have said all this right to her fat face, and loud. And NO I don’t give a damn what color her skin is, it is called MANNERS, Being Courteous. You know the stuff we were taught a long time ago when we had PARENTS.
It has been a long time since I have read so many articles by selfish people. Move over, already. He paid just like you.
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