Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
The bigger story to this is the shaming of the person that pointed out the rule breaker. Of course the race card was used early on. So now someone's livelyhood is at risk for pointing out someone not following the rules. This will become the norm now. Dallas won't prosecute certain thieves/shoplifters. Metro will look the other way when people eat, drink or play their music too loud.
Part 1 of the story:
So it's anything goes on the Metro. I can't wait for the day that they try to reimplement the previous rules.
Part 2 of the story: Subway rider sees a Metro employee breaking a rule(eating). She points it out to the employee and is told to mind her own beeswax. Then the firestorm begins. P.S., not sure why being of Jordanian ancestry is mentioned in the article. Not sure why the race of the Metro employee is mentioned either.
2 wrongs make a bigger wrong
The bigger story to this is the shaming of the person that pointed out the rule breaker. Of course the race card was used early on. So now someone's livelyhood is at risk for pointing out someone not following the rules. This will become the norm now. Dallas won't prosecute certain thieves/shoplifters. Metro will look the other way when people eat, drink or play their music too loud.
Part 1 of the story:
an email from Metro Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik sent May 8, ordering officers to “cease and desist from issuing criminal citations in the District of Columbia for fare evasion; eating; drinking; spitting, and playing musical instruments without headphones until further advised.”
So it's anything goes on the Metro. I can't wait for the day that they try to reimplement the previous rules.
Part 2 of the story: Subway rider sees a Metro employee breaking a rule(eating). She points it out to the employee and is told to mind her own beeswax. Then the firestorm begins. P.S., not sure why being of Jordanian ancestry is mentioned in the article. Not sure why the race of the Metro employee is mentioned either.
Author Natasha Tynes has ignited a firestorm on social media, where she criticized a black Metro employee for eating on the train and reported the woman to transit officials.
Tynes, a Jordanian-American writer and World Bank employee in Washington, tweeted a photo of the woman Friday, showing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority employee in uniform, eating on the Red Line. Tynes tagged the WMATA account, reporting that when she confronted the woman for breaking Metro rules, the woman replied, “worry about yourself.”
“When you’re on your morning commute & see @wmata employee in UNIFORM eating on the train,” Tynes tweeted. “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds."
The backlash was swift on Twitter, where people have been calling out the self-described “minority writer” for publicly shaming a black woman and trying to get her into trouble.
In response to the incident, Rare Birds Books, a publishing house that was set to distribute Tynes’s upcoming novel, “They Called Me Wyatt,” has decided not to do so. The book is about a Jordanian student who is murdered and realizes that her “consciousness” has inhabited Wyatt, a 3-year-old boy with speech delays, according the synopsis.
Rare Birds Books said in a statement Friday that it had learned that the author “did something truly horrible today in tweeting a picture of a metro worker eating her breakfast on the train this morning and drawing attention to her employer. Black women face a constant barrage of this kind of inappropriate behavior directed toward them and a constant policing of their bodies.
“We think this is unacceptable and have no desire to be involved with anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to jeopardize a person’s safety and employment in this way.”
The company then urged Tynes’s publisher, California Coldblood, to cut ties with the author as well.
2 wrongs make a bigger wrong