New word you can’t say: “Yellow”
Asian-American grievance-mongers and “diversity” bureaucrats in Atlanta need to justify their existence and their salaries.
They found the perfect opportunity. Cry “yellow!”:
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.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.
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.
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
Park and other Asian activists plan to meet Friday with MARTA CEO Beverly Scott. They hope MARTA will change the line’s name from yellow to gold.
Scott said Monday that she will go into the meeting with an open mind. “There are very few things in this life that are absolute,” she said.
While Scott did not “in any way want to minimize” the concerns, she said that one MARTA employee’s complaint was not indicative of everybody’s feelings. She added that by the time it was raised, MARTA was ending a year-long process to implement the change. “Everything was printed, we were ready to go,” she said.
The ethnic sensitivity police waited a year to start whining. Now, they’ll spare no expense to disrupt the taxpayer-funded project to assuage hurt feelings and indulge a manufactured outrage:
“Anybody who rides MARTA knows that the line going up through that area is heavily Asian,” said Robert Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. “These are always sensitive issues. Anticipation of concern and sensitivity, and the outreach, probably should have been done before.”
Scott said she heard complaints from the employee and a few advocacy group leaders. At a recent community forum, she asked some Asian-Americans if they were offended and said they told her they weren’t. She noted that Asian and American cities that have public transit call some routes yellow lines. However, she stressed that she is ready to listen.
MARTA employs 13 people in its diversity office. They focus on equal opportunity in employment and disadvantaged business and perform some community outreach.
Did you catch that? “13 people in its diversity office.” Color me exasperated.
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Flashback: Dallas county official: “Black hole” is racist!
Flashback: Remember former NAACP leader Rev. Joseph Lowery’s race-based benediction at Obama’s inauguration?
“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.
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UNBELIEVABLE
OH for crying out loud! I guess we a daily up-date on new words that are not pc so we can keep up.
L
Well, I guess I can’t order “white” sauce on my pasta anymore.
Next target … the Blue Line … it offends the inhabitants of Avatar’s “Pandora” …
That’s caucasian sauce Stubby, don’t make me go to HR!
Yeah,they will be on you like White on Rice.
Unbelievable. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have the right not to be offended.
In fact, the Constitution guarantees that you WILL be offended in this country by virtue of the first amendment which says anyone can say anything without punishment from the government. . . free speech.
Thank you for bringing this story to life. If Americans can stop being the victims of the world and start celebrating the opportunity everyone has in this country, we’d be a LOT stronger.
It’s just sad that people feel victimized by naming a route by a color.
How about they name the yellow line the ‘mix red and green line’.
This PC crap is getting old, and all it does is limit free speech. May I suggest bloggers just ignore.
oh … and don’t forget the other colors … Green offends Martians (enviro-nuts qualify in that category), Red offends the native Americans, Brown offends the Hispanics and others, and Heaven Forbid they ever designated a Black line … just to name a few … Get a grip people …
What are we supposed to call the stripe up the back of all Democrats?
Are the Asian racemongers afraid that their community will lose their special powers if they come in contact with the color ala Green Lantern??? Can we no longer describe a banana by its color because someone might get offended???
I think my head’s going to explode from the stupidity.
MARTA needs to fight this – don’t give in. And why does the Atlanta MARTA need a diversity office?
Sorry, but that flies in the face of the potty etiquette I was taught: “if it’s brown, flush it down!”
Wow, I’m so ashamed for how my people treated other people in the past.
I wonder how much money it would take to assuage these past offenses?
As my children observed many years ago, I am NOT white. I am pink.
I will now take high umbrage when someone uses the racially insensitive slur “white person”. I am a pink American.
Oh, and I demand to be referred to as a Scots-Irish-German-English-American Indian-American.
The Maginot Line.
Oh, good grief!
Things must be pretty dang good if there’s nothing better for you to get offended about than the name of a train line.
This is ridiculous
Will they be protesting any Bruce Springsteen concerts, the next time he sings “Born in the USA?”
Let me see – I’ve lived in both Tokyo and Singapore and traveled quite a bit in Asia. It appears to me that they didn’t get the PC memo in Tokyo; how dare the Japan National Railway system have a yellow line. And Beijing, again, they missed the memo.
The idiots proclaiming such nonsense are demonstrating their complete lack of biological knowledge. Do these people understand that everybody has the same color skin – it’s simply a matter of how much melanin is expressed? In fact, if anybody should “feel inferior”, it’s those who have less melanin – they are the ones with “less”.
do I need the /sarc tag?
Send them back the follow comment:
“Opinion noted.”
End of discussion.
conservativesRus said:
I felt completely at home in Singapore -love the place – the MRT is a great way to get around aside from walking.
They’re not Yellow, They’re Chicken!
stillontheroad & conservativesRus–Mrcakes lived in Singapore for a few years too. He loved it there. They are no nonsense folks.
That’s just so R-Word.
Burning the dictionary one page at a time.
Wait, this was Atlanta. Shouldn’t it have been “Yeller”?
They all need to chillax with some nice hippie music, may I suggest the following:
Mellow Yellow
Donovan
I’m just mad about Saffron
Saffron’s mad about me
I’m just mad about Saffron
She’s just mad about me
{Refrain}
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
I’m just mad about Fourteen
Fourteen’s mad about me
I’m just mad about Fourteen
She’s just mad about me
{Refrain}
Born high forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Wanna high forever to fly
If you want your cup our fill
{Refrain}
(So mellow, he’s so yellow)
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase
They call it mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Saffron — yeah
I’m just mad about her
I’m just mad about Saffron
She’s just mad about me
{Refrain}
(Oh so yellow, oh so mellow)
I asked my Asian wife if she is upset with Metro lines being called, “yellow”. She rolled her eyes. I told her about the offense of having them “yellow”. She thinks they need mental help.
May I add that I’m thinking about starting a movement demonstrating against snow, ice and sleet as “racist”. I want my 5 minutes of fame too!
The burnt sienna line?
I propose they change all the colors to fruits:
Yellow-Maise
Red-Cherry
Blue-Juice line
Black-Licorice
Brown-Choculate
Pink-Grapefruit
Feel free to add your own “Niggardly” comment for cost control.
GSP
graysonret: Did you pick them up and roll them back?
Looks like “yellow” doesn’t stand a Chinaman’s chance of remaining.
Nail49, no, not unless I want plain rice for dinner only.
Related. More evidence of the “wimpification” America. Snowball throwers chagred with a FELONY!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0209101snow1.html
I have never seen a yellow person in my life. I’ve held up Crayola crayons and art paper to thousands of people and nothing matches or comes close.
I do get visited and taken away by little green men in the dark of night. *gasp* Hopefully our Democrat diversity overlords will issue a harsh statement about these one-color entity organizations.
How about a little satire?
That is just retarded.
We are becoming more like England in every way. So sad. Atlanta is also sliding toward a reflection of Washington and the ‘left’ coast.
Are the asians in china offended by the racist named Yellow River?
Especially the yellow snow!
Recall all those rainbow decals. Product liability is just too high. Children reciting the colors of the rainbow are being indoctrinated in racial pejoratives. E&O insurance must be going through the roof.
So, you detect a chink in the armor, as it were?
Nope; The Goldline already runs to the center of the Jewish community.
So “yellow” is out of bounds, hmm? Guess that means I’ll have to switch back to “oriental”…
I need to find my own reason for being offended, besides those trolls who attack me by twisting my words.
So what is the diversity make up of these 13 people….just curious if they practice the diversity that they preach.
We’ve gone from the melting pot to the ___________________
(fill in the blank).
And I’ve never seen an actual white person. (OK, Chris Matthews comes close, but….yuuuuk.) I have also never seen a red person, either. I suggest we all go down to Home Depot and go the the paint section. Find the color that is closest to your skin. From then on you shall refer to yourself as that type of American and take offense anytime someone uses that color to describe something.
Sounds like they need to sort it out among themselves then.
We’ve gone from the melting pot to the
___________________crackpot.(fill in the blank).
On February 9th, 2010 at 11:18 am, GraniteMan said:
We’ve gone from the melting pot to the ___________________
(fill in the blank).
…deep smoking hole in the ground.
chamber pot?
We’ve gone from the melting pot to the ___________________
boiling cauldron
So we can’t say “the yellow menace” anymore? Dang. Haven’t used that since Eisenhauer was president. “Mama” “Dada” “yellow menace”. That was the extent of my vocabulary back then
They have a yellow line heading into our old folk’s village and I’m offended because of my big prostate and incontinence!
“Watch out where the huskies go, and
Don’t you eat that yellow snow.”
Not a Zappa fan by any means, but I do remember that couplet…from “Nanuck of the North”, I think.
Guess they’ll need to change the color of all those “no passing lines” on the streets and highways too …
Oh the horror, the horror.
And again I am offended that only white men rob houses in those commercials for home security. Where are the black, red and yellow menaces?
Seeing as how everything in between the Aleutian Islands and Egypt is Asia, I seriously doubt that many people find it offensive.
Yellow mustard is not the same as Chinese mustard.
Exactly as designed.
Stop right there.
Nowhere near the the right thing to say first.
That is conceding that these clowns have a reasonable gripe, which they do not.
Maybe so, but this should be one of them – fearless, appropriate, nonderogatory, accurate, correct use of English.
Again, a concession…the wrong thing to say.
On the “black hole” Commissioner.
That story continues to crack me up. I work with both of those Commissioners in that discussion (as they are clients).
This video from a meeting this past December is even more amazing. John Wiley Price is the man in the middle and Mayfield is the white man in the foreground (yes they sit right next to each other).
It’s worth watching this entire clip. Wow. I don’t need to give the background on this discussion for it to be amazing.
http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=49080@ktvt.dayport.com
I can see it all so clearly now. Yellow lights mean ‘Caution’ – RACIST!
‘Yellow’ means ‘Coward’ – RACIST!
Yellow snow is bad to eat – RACIST!
Yellow tape means ‘stay out’ – RACIST!
Yellow and black stripes mean ‘Danger’ – RACIST!
Yellow lemon means a bad car – RACIST!
/race_colored_glasses_off
Lessons learned from this article:
1. Ethnic grievance mongers are everywhere. You don’t dare risk saying something for risk of committing the cardinal sin in present day America: OFFENDING someone.
2. America is well on it’s way in becoming ‘wimpified’. In the end, political correctness really WILL be our downfall…just wait and see.
3. There are at least 12 employees (maybe 13) in the MARTA diversity office who have way too much time on their hands and the jobs should be eliminated to save local taxpayers some $$$.
4. Thankfully, not all members of [supposedly] aggrieved class think the same…. Hey! Isn’t that diversity?
Since they waited nearly a year before complaining, and the costs to create the materials have already been incurred… it shouldn’t be a problem to change the color of the line if the offended people are willing to pick up the cost to make the changes.
Of course something tells me that they aren’t really THAT offended…
I don’t think yellow skin is physically unattractive.
60% of the world’s population is Asian and we end up with this guy.
Dear Lord, forgive them their pettiness.
How about the purple line? Or would that offend SEIU, or maybe states that are somewhere between blue and red. Can’t name it the gray line, because that raises images of the Civil War, ie., war between the blue and the gray. I guess red is already taken — the Mao line. And blue? Green line could be an alternative, if not already taken, but does any of the power for MARTA comes from unapproved sources, such as coal or natural gas. No, that wouldn’t be appropriate, would it? Oh give me a break.
How about the “Jaundiced” line. Would that be better?
Well, there’s one way to fight the PC police. Ignore them. Call me what you want – racist, homophobe, chauvanist, birther — frankly, I don’t care.
I might consider not using the word “colored” when the NAACP drops it from their title. I guess I’ll have to figure out another term to use when referring to the kid’s colored pages in their coloring books.
The problem is that yellow means they CAN’T pass and the “white” line gets to pass. This is clearly racist and needs correcting. No wonder whitey always gets ahead. May I suggest some sort of reparations are in order here.
I guest they’ll have to find another color for those “yellow alerts” regarding pending levels of terrorism.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!”
Maybe it’s time for a little desensitizing.
“The Red Zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no parking in the Red Zone.“
All this talk about colors doesn’t bother me much,but you knuckle-draggers better not order Devil’s Food Cake./sarc
Yellow is the color of my true love’s hair. Seriously
I wish people would stop being so sensitive! I am far more offended by Rahm Emanuel’s potty mouth. A high-profile official has no business talking like that! I wish someone would shove a bar of soap in his mouth. And yes, I was offended when Cheney used the same word.
(_*_)s can make anything about race. I sure do miss the old amos and andy days, and w.c. fields with mae west. the world was a better place and we were a happier, more productive nation.
Hey kewl! Another apropo Donovan hippie tune to chillax with!
Yellow is the color of my true love’s hair
In the morning, when we rise
In the morning, when we rise
That’s the time,
That’s the time
I love the best
Blue is the color of the sky-y-y
In the morning, when we rise
In the morning, when we rise
That’s the time,
That’s the time
I love the best
Green is the color of the sparkling corn
In the morning, when we rise
In the morning, when we rise
That’s the time
That’s the time
I love the best
Mellow is the feeling that I get
When I see her, mm-hmmm,
When I see her, mm-hmmm
That’s the time,
That’s the time
I love the best
Freedom is a word I rarely use
Without thinking, mm-hmmm,
Without thinking, mm-hmmm,
Of the time,
Of the time
When I’ve been loved
I’m shocked! Atlanta has an Asian community?
Actually – they should have seen this coming…
Just put it over there on the stack with the others.
Latest Whine I’d heard was ‘Black Comedy’, not the Eddie Murphy kind.
If they don’t knock this off, I’m gonna raise heck with the Congressional White Caucus, then they’ll get straightened out.
Oh, wait…?
I don’t understand why the Asian community is not embracing the name, and thus, their railroad building heritage. They’re denying the railroad legacy of their ancestors.
What is the color of Mick?
‘Red or yellow, black and white, all are
precious in His siteequal in his sight,JesusBarak Hussein Obama, MMMM MMMMM MMMMM…..’Isn’t it great that our Nation is racially healed?
The obvious question: If MARTA employs 13 diversity workers, how come they have this problem? The diversity workers didn’t pick it up?
How ’bout we all just say what we mean, mean what we say and damn the torpedos.
I grew up in Doraville and there are more Hispanics than Asians living/working there. Perhaps the Hispanics can complain and ask them to call it the Fiesta line?
Upset over “yellow”? What a load of hogwash. Even native-born Atlantans admit that MARTA stands for “Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta”.
Gray or grey?
Doh! Don’t know what happened there.
Someone splain me…
‘White’ and ‘black’ seem to be okay so how come ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ are such a problem?
We should all just agree to just use color codes unilaterally and move past this crap.
Only the end of this line is in Doraville, which is mostly Asian. The rest is just regular Atlanta. If the line were mostly stops that were easterncentric (how’s that for pc?) then I can see how someone might be offended, but Doraville just happens to be the end of the line. And I would bet that 90% of MARTA riders don’t even know that Doraville has a big Asian community.
It was dumb to name the lines by colors, since everyone still refers to them by the last stop, rather than the color. MARTA fail.
Jeeez! Some people really need to get a life!!!!
Suppose the DC Metro Yellow Line is racist too?
The next thing you know, convicted serial murders can adopt a highway!
*Exasperated Sigh*
I’m offended that someone is offended at such a trivial thing!