OMG some people!!!!

[GirDance]

So I'm on the bus home from work, and it wasn't packed or anything, there was one person to each pair of seats, and one pair completely open, a young couple get on the bus and takes the last open set of seats. This older (50 or so maybe) woman sitting across the aisle from them gets up, walks over and asks me to move over so that she can sit down. I just kind blankly starred at her, thinking "why are you moving from having two seats by yourself?" at which point she says, and not quietly:

"I don't feel comfortable sitting that close to one of them black peoples"

... Loss of words after which I reply, still in my nice sweet customer service voice since I just got off work "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't feel comfortable sacrificing my own comfort just because you're racist" (I have a knack for not thinking through some things before they come out of my mouth)

AND THEN she hauls off and hits me with her purse saying that *I'm* disrespectful and screams at the bus driver to let her off immediately!

The guy in front of me is then like, "I can't believe that just happened!" and I was at a complete loss for words except to say, "I know" and then in disbelief missed my own stop which would have been the next one...

I can't believe people still think it's okay to act that way!

[Jay_Bunny]

Yea I kind of know how you feel. While at my sisters birthday party, we get on the subject of politics. I'm not of either party but I lean towards democrat and while we are talking my grandmother says "Well I don't think a woman should be president." Not could not, but SHOULD NOT. I immediatly turn around and said "A woman can do whatever she wants to do." At that point, 3 WOMEN in my family turn to look at me and say "No they can't" My family is so screwed up. Later that day while my sister and I are in the grocery store she says "Well I don't really care about a woman being president buy I sure as hell don't want a black man running this country." My sister is 14 and clearly my grandmother and mother (who use the n word on a regular basis) have done their job at brainwashing her. I stopped her in the store and I tried to keep my voice down but I told her "There is nothing wrong with a black man wanting to be president. I'm so tired of my own family seeing things in black and white. You are so blind and its because you listen to your grandmother and mother who have known nothing but racism all their lives. Obama is a well-educated man and there is no reason he can't run for president and there is no reason he can't win the election either."

Then I said some other things along the lines of I will never speak to her again if she says the n word in my presence or says any kind of racist thing while I'm around. I'm really starting to think I should keep away from my family seeing as I'm about as unracist and unsexist as it comes.

[GirDance]

LOL me too... In order to get along with my family (my father especially) the following topics are off limits:
Religion
Politics
Sexual Preference
Medicare
Immigration
Native rights

Some of those still surprise me, especially considering that my mother is native, and my father raised us all without ever having set foot in a church. Ironically enough, gender role issues - fine. He has a friend from work who just went through a sex change and he's very accepting of that.

[starmom]

Racial discrimination was what pushed me into a road trip away from Virginia 25 years ago. I consciously made the choice to not raise my children around such hurtful thoughts and behaviors. Thank goodness my truck broke down about 40 minutes from the Pacific Ocean cause I suppose I would have tried to continue to increase the distance between my own ideologies and those of a racist ideology; whether explicit or implied.
I am glad you had the courage to stand up for Humanity! Right on!!

[Monty]

i don't get why all these people are against a female president. i mean ok maybe clinton shouldnt be presidant but what about eva peron and other countries that have females as leaders. and they are doing just fine elizabeth the 3rd and all the queens from the past. and they all do a damn fine job. so don't say that females shouldnt be president.

[GirDance]

I'm still in shock... I can't believe I got hit by an old lady wielding a purse....

[starmom]

I'm still in shock... I can't believe I got hit by an old lady wielding a purse....

She was not a lady!!! She is a product of her times and so all of the rest of us have to change, in whatever way we can, these times. That's why I'm so proud of you....sounds like actions my kids have taken...at least your parents didn't need to bail you out of jail.....

[Monty]

yea tha does suck

[West Coast Jungle]

You younger people are lucky to live in a world where this kind of behavior has become disturbing instead of commonplace. Unfortunately you will see this more in the older generations. As ugly as it is it is nice to know that everyday that mentality becomes more the past and the future only gets better.

[recycling goddess]

I'm still in shock... I can't believe I got hit by an old lady wielding a purse....

ya but your response.... priceless!!!