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This is a race related question...

Does this bother you and why specifically?
A black Jamaican woman got on the bus with her suitcase whilst talking on the phone. I followed with my mum, another woman and then a white male and his son.
We all found seats in the remaining ones available.
Jamaican woman though put her suitcase in the disabled area, whilst the white male and his son took the seat behind the barrier near where the suitcase was being kept (the wheelchair area).
The Jamaican woman noticed this and commented on it to who ever she was on the phone to.

She dramatised it by saying "he jumped in her seat, that he may as well had sat in her lap"
So the white male asked "did you want to sit here? I hadn't realised you wanted this seat!"

So she proceeded to rant "Well there were other seats why did you choose to sit there, of course I would have wanted to sit down".

They had a few more back and forths and the guy said "of you don't want the seat stop moaning, I offered it you declined already let's move on!"

She followed up with "Lord jesus let me stop, coz I'm fraid of you, you might punch me in my face, you people are so violent!"

Both my mum and I looked at each other in shock because this escalated stupidly.

And the rest of our journey the downstairs passengers were really quiet. Whilst she continue to mutter something to whoever was on the phone.

What do you make of this!?

This bothered me as a black woman myself.


The new London buses are like this.
Where as the older style are similar in colour to the design above but there are barriers like in this one
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This has nothing to do with race.
It has ALL to do with someone being an ungrateful entitled shit.

Some people are just like that 🤷‍♀️
And she just.made herself look even worse by being deliberately difficult.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@Nunatak I struggle to respond when language like this is used.
Because I feel by agreeing with you I'm condoning this use of language when personally two wrongs don't make a right.

In regards to the situation it was unnecessary.
@Mellowgirl well, we are all different.

Being eloquent or blunt doesnt change the meaning of a concept expressed in either type of language.

If you cant get past my language to discern my meaning , and only see the language i choose, then we are at an impasse.
You see what you choose to see.🤷‍♀️
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@Nunatak Well then her language shouldn't be frowned upon, "you people"...
@Mellowgirl i assumed you meant my language, as you used the terms 'this' and 'you', in your response.