Beavercreek, Ohio needs to join the post-Civil Rights Era. These communities that refuse bus service because black people use buses just piss me off.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
So in fifty years white people have moved from the front of the bus to totally out of the bus. So discouraging.
But the heated and air conditioned bus stops would be nice.
Beavercreek is less than 30 minutes from where I live and have spent nearly my entire life. Let’s just say it is a perfect microcosm of most of this area of the state.
There really is a serious undercurrent of bigotry in the area. Their world is changing, and they shit their pants about it at every turn.
Wow, is this 2013 or 1960s??? My mom used to live in Cincinnati, OH (she moved back home to NOLA last year) and she would tell me about the amount of racism she experienced and saw in Cincinnati and she said it was worst than what she experience in NOLA. So this story would NOT be a surprise to her
The Boston area would have a better mass transit system if there wasn’t so much subtle — and sometimes not-so-subtle — pressure to keep certain subsets of the population “in their place”. (There’s also a huge class element to it, of course.)