An Open Letter to BART
Even though I am not personally young and black, I was hoping you could reassure me that I could expect not to be fatally shot in the back while incapacitated by your employees. While I recognize that the odds are statistically very low of this happening, Oscar Grant (no relation) had not been treated to due process, so there is nothing verifiable to suggest that he was any more deserving of a bullet on New Years than I was on my way into work this morning. If you can provide me with a convincing reason I should not live in terror of your police force before I begin my trip home this evening, I would deeply appreciate it.
Sincerely,
David Grant
Frequent Rider
This entry was posted on January 5, 2009 at 3:23 pm and is filed under Rants with tags bart, oscar grant, police, police violence, racism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
January 23, 2009 at 10:37 pm
David – you are hilarious! Thank you for this post.