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Offline Chris

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MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« on: February 09, 2010, 02:10:06 PM »
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Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta's Asian community the "yellow line" will take their objections to the transit agency's chief on Friday.

MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.

MARTA launched the color-coded lines Oct. 1 to help passengers navigate the system more easily. Transit officials noted that other systems, including Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, use similar color codes. MARTA designates its lines red, green, blue and yellow.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/marta-yellow-line-to-294162.html

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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 02:17:39 PM »
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MARTA designates its lines red, green, blue and yellow.

No "Black" line?
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2010, 02:23:14 PM »
This should be filed in the "some people will be offended by anything" cabinet. :whatever:
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 03:18:50 PM »
Hmmm, Asians admitting that they are "yellow" ?!?!?!? I've been to Asia and known plenty of Asians in my life. None of them appeared in any way, shape or form, to be "yellow'. People really need to get over themselves. Life's too short for this kind of bullshit.
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2010, 06:10:08 PM »
Wake me when they call it the chink line and there's reason to be upset.
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2010, 06:34:25 PM »
PCers are nuts.... alert #45,406,658,908
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2010, 08:07:24 PM »
You thinks the Asians are mad, just wait until the black community finds out what MARTA stands for.

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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2010, 08:08:11 PM »
:rofl:
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2010, 08:14:03 PM »
Oh FFS people!!!!
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2010, 08:21:13 PM »
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2010, 09:23:18 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on February 09, 2010, 08:07:24 PM
You thinks the Asians are mad, just wait until the black community finds out what MARTA stands for.

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I was going to post that very thing but you beat me to it :tongue:
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2010, 06:51:06 PM »
I am Asian and that does not bother me one bit. They need to get a life!  :mental:
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2010, 06:59:13 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on February 10, 2010, 06:51:06 PM
I am Asian and that does not bother me one bit. They need to get a life!  :mental:

I thought you were Avian.  :-)
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2010, 07:05:42 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 10, 2010, 06:59:13 PM
I thought you were Avian.  :-)

I could be Avian too. A ptarmigan.
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2010, 09:04:02 PM »
For some reason, this reminds me of the Wood Eye joke which I don't remember very well but it went something like this.

A guy lost his eye, he couldn't afford a glass one so he carved his own prosthetic eye out of wood.  His friends made fun of him and called him "Wood Eye."  Worse, he had no success with women as he was terribly self conscious of his wooden eye and felt it repulsed women.

One day he went to a dance, more or less dragged there by his friends who were starting to become concerned at his increasing isolation and feeling bad for constantly ribbing him.  At first he shyly clung to the wall, sipping 7-Up out of a paper cup wondering why he even came.  Then he noticed a lass with a peg leg, also self-consciously clinging to the wall.  The couple exchange glances and shy smiles until finally the guy screws up enough courage to ask the lass with the peg leg to dance.

"Would you like to dance?" the guy with the wooden eye asks the lass with the peg leg.

"Would I?" says the lass, "Would I--"

"Who you calling "wood eye," peg leg," he says and storms off in a huff.
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Re: MARTA ‘yellow line' angers some in Asian community
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