Backpacker Racially Profiled at Port Authority

guitartini.jpgRob Paravonian writes: “This morning I began my trek to Alaska, the first leg of which involves me getting to the Port Authority bus terminal to catch a bus to Newark airport. While waiting for the next bus a man walked up to me. Dressed in a polo shirt and khaki pants … (and) wearing sunglasses indoors at nine in the morning.”

“He got into my space and asked, ‘I was wondering if you could help me.’ … He went through his half-assed spiel … He could tell I wasn’t buying it … He quickly turned around, grumbling, ‘thank you, that’s very white of you.'”

“… I said, ‘there are three other people in here you could ask’ … he just walked up to the white boy with a backpack who looked the most gullible and the most like a tourist. I see your race card and I raise you a pair of you’re-an-idiots.”

LINK: Playing Cards with an Accidental Tourist [Paravonia]

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