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 told her to “worry about yourself.”
Aren't Jordanians some flavor of POC in the
Prog Intersectionality Handbook?
This wasn't a she-said--she-said situation. Tynes had a photo of the WMATA employee breaking WMATA rules.
I'm guessing the unnamed WMATA employee's defiance is what motivated Tynes to go public with this.
What disgusts me with the WashPost article - what
Demovictory9 quotes of it - is that Tynes is named 7 times. The rules-breaker is not mentioned by name once, unless in a part of the WashPost article not quoted. The union's explanation, if true, is reasonable enough. Maybe the WMATA employee should have given it to Tynes rather than being defiant. And maybe the union should have, long ago, arranged with WMATA for a designated area for employees having to eat their lunch/dinner onboard so as to avoid confrontations like this.
Skin color was irrelevant to this, but as my signature quote says ...