Another letter from Baltimore:
Colin,
Sadly, the Baltimore bus story does not surprise me in the least.
I used to live in Baltimore (circa 2003-2005), and as a white woman, it was pretty clear that I was not welcome on the bus.
Once I had a group of three twenty-something woman force me off, and on another occasion I had a woman (black) sitting behind me tell her friend she was going to follow “white girl” (me) off the bus wherever I got off and beat me up (she did not).
My offense? Paying my fare and riding quietly on the bus.
On a separate occasion we had to have police meet us at the final station, as a black woman was threatening another white woman for daring to sit down in the seat adjacent to hers without asking permission first.The bus drivers did nothing to intervene in any of these instances.
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