As in, do they really or even at one point, did they really make big windows on buses specifically in order to humiliate the people of "colour" who are "reduced" (also, are they even AT ALL "reduced" in that context?) to "riding on them"?
Or was it just non-sense that he happened to make up?
Recently we've been told there are racist roads, and racist bridges. Now I'm reading that bus windows are racist. Are bus tires racist too? After all, they're black.
shareWell... (Haha, obviously it wasn't just the colour ala "black" tyres etc.)
But what I meant was, from where did that man Ludacris get the idea that they make windows on American buses so BIG in order to PRIMARILY humiliate people of colour that are on them? And did his statement even have a modicum of truth in it?
Sure, that may not make buses or bus windows THEMSELVES racist. But did those people even REMOTELY have such racist views and have those aspects in minds when designing bus windows of a specific size?
Keep also in mind that decades earlier, sadly, racism including institutional one was sadly an existing part of American history. There was even this famous incident that involved some lady called Rosie Parks or something who was black and who in a struggle successfully got herself a seat on a bus at one point. But then I wonder, if it applied really like that to all or nearly all aspect and that people either make big windows to humiliate people of colour or even say make small chairs that are uncomfortable but aimed at coloured people as maybe they had their countries listed or ingrained in their design etc?
Short answer: No.
Long(er) Answer: Of COURSE not. Are you being serious?
Well, I KINDA thought so. :) But just to confirm, besides, who really knows? Even if its just a matter of his own opinion?
shareThe movie makes it clear that it's just his own opinion, and that it's a silly opinion, and a facile justification (on several levels) of his life choices.
It's one of the several things the movie is trying to say. Asking if he's right Completely Misses The Entire Point.
Then again, I was like 90% sure that he wasn't right here. :)
shareYeah, I was wondering the same thing.
shareBus travel didn't always have the negative connotation attached to it that it does now, and since about the mid 70s.
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