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 ...
She would have a LOT of trouble with that attitude in Africa. It is a man's world in those parts, and the color hardly matters. Pull that nonsense with an older man and her visit will be brief.
She shares a common trait with the president.
Victim, entitled, a child in an adult body...
I don’t find anything the man did that was racist
“In the reverse scenario, a black man would never get on the train, snatch up a white woman’s bag, and shove it in her face. “
Yup. Usually they pick it up and run like hell. This so-called professor is typical of the teachers at the black psychosis factories known as black studies departments. Every one of them should be shut down as all they do is promote racial hatred of whites and the US.
Where do I begin?
I wonder if it happened exactly like that ?
I’ll bet she’s fun at parties.
“It’s going to be tough to bring civilized behavior back to the feral population.”
Don’t worry. The new Spanish majority coming down the road will have very little patience for this BS.
We have people claiming racism when a black man tries to disarm a cop and then charges the cop were the white cop is put in a position to shoot, Michelle Obama turning a story that she once told with humor into a race incident, and this story amongst others.
Your fellow citizens are all aware of this and are getting really bored with it.
Oh please. Was the white guy also wearing a Colonel Sanders suit and speaking with a southern drawl?
This broad provoked the entire situation by being oblivious to the world around her on public transport.
Methinks she is rape safe
“...the height of racial disrespect and indignity...”
She just assumes the guy was a racist and ignores the fact that she’s a rude clod with her bag on the seat beside her in a full train.
Everything’s ‘race’ with these whingeing characters.
I knew when I clicked the Salon link that I would be laughing before I finished reading. I was not disappointed. the comments are pretty blistering too... good entertainment
Ohhhhh, disembodied scary “white hand” coming at me! I bet she wasn’t so horrified by Michael Jackson’s white hand.
britney goes through life wearing her race colored glasses
I guess a Black Dude would have just stolen her Bag.
Oh how I adore the Perpetually Offended.
WOW. this gal is delusional in her thinking seeing everything with a racial lens. yes the guy probably should not of put his hands on her possessions but to see this as white black thing is crazy. I have a feelling that both of these people are just plane rude people.
Just a little to the northwest of that...gotta at least brush the hot zone.
Fat racist arrogant bitch ...
He should have shoved her laptop down her throat.
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