Tea Partiers Beware: Stay Away From the Green and Yellow Lines
A Tea Party website in Maine has some handy tips for those planning to attend Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington DC — specifically, how to avoid being mugged by those third world minority types who lurk on the Green and Yellow lines:
DC’s population includes refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in DC whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their family would be in danger if they went back. Most taxi drivers and many waiters/waitresses (especially in local coffee shops like the Bread and Chocolate chain) are immigrants, frequently from east Africa or Arab countries. As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions. It’s rare to meet anyone who gets really offended, but you can still be aware of the issue.
Many parts of DC are safe beyond the areas I will list here, but why chance it if you don’t know where you are?
If you are on the subway stay on the Red line between Union Station and Shady Grove, Maryland. If you are on the Blue or Orange line do not go past Eastern Market (Capitol Hill) toward the Potomac Avenue stop and beyond; stay in NW DC and points in Virginia. Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line. These rules are even more important at night. There is of course nothing wrong with many other areas; but you don’t know where you are, so you should not explore them.
The Metro is no picnic either, as wingnut blogger Dan Riehl discovered last year: Dan Riehl’s Imaginary Black Kid Beatdown.
And remember, folks: no signs allowed!
(Hat tip: DCist.)
Frank says: