11.06.2007

Rudeness on the Streetcar

I haven't been around much lately, I guess I haven't needed the outlet. This is supposedly a good thing I guess. But today I was struck by something, and I feel the need to vent about it, and possible other things too, if all goes well.

I took the streetcar home from work today, and today was a particularly rough ride. Bus was late, streetcar was late. People everywhere... raining and cold. Winter has begun to set in, and people are not prepared, its almost like they forget we live in Canada.. and every year, Winter returns.

Anyways, somewhere about Spadina and College (otherwise knows as Chinatown), some crazy guy in a Camel jacket with long flowing white hair is bitching out some guy about moving to the back of the streetcar. Only, there is no room to move back, everyone has practiced due diligence on this ride as far as I am concerned.
Buddy keeps on bitching at the guy, and ends it with calling him a baboon... did I mention that the young man was black? I was shocked... so were others. This old camel coated fuck then moves to leave the car, and as a parting gesture - he looks at this little Asian lady, and says "fucking slant eyes".

I was shocked at this blatant use of racial slurs... I haven't heard talk like this in years, and I thought, perhaps foolishly, that the world was moving past such things. At the very least, in Canada.

I am once again, disgusted with white people and their rudeness. I am ashamed once again.