Curious

[soulofbuffalo]

About five years ago, my then-boyfriend and I marched in the Juneteenth parade with Housing Opportunities Made Equal, where a good friend of mine served on the board of directors. Neither of us had a car, and we took the bus down from the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood, where he was living at the time. Being in the parade, we arrived well before

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[zippojeans]

Well there's an easy answer: it's purely racist. Juneteenth is a primarily black festival. They probably don't even think black people use the internet.

And they figure that black people won't complain about the poor service, just as it was easy for them to do the rate hikes, which in some people's opinion (someone I know who fought the hikes) were racist too.

Finally, NFTA runs their oldest buses mostly in poorer black neighborhoods on the east side. You'd rarely see the old ones going up Elmwood because white people would throw a fit. Yet there's no discount for riding the disgusting old buses.

[dragonlady7]

Hey, to be totally random, I'm dropping you a line here because I'm not sure what your email addy is-- can you contact geoff@artvoice.com about food writing, he wants to have a meeting tonight-ish for an upcoming feature.

[soulofbuffalo]

Thanks!