When will we allow common sense to prevail and not rules! I am ashamed to live in a country where we can't respect people, if for nothing else because of their age. Did the singing and tapping disturb passengers that much that the woman had to be pulled off the train, risking injury and possible death to the elderly passenger?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:17:14 -0500
From: blackstar1000@ameritech.net
To: creatingartwlife@hotmail.com
Subject: Oh Hell Naw!!! 82-Year-Old Black Woman Dragged from Miami Train and Thrown to Ground by Security for Singing Spirituals !
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We need to teach common sense approaches to handling all situations. Perhaps the other passengers who were being disturbed could have gotten up and moved to other sections of the train. I hate to know that we have come to a day and age when a woman singing spirituals is considered a disturbance. The disturbance is the security guard who would have never handled anyone of his own ethnic group with such insensitivity, discourtesy and disrespect. It is just further proof that at no matter what age a person is, if the individual is black, he/she is not respected. Some people should be taken off of the train because they smell bad, but passengers have to deal with it until they get off of their stops. Sometimes groups of people talk loud, and passengers have to deal with it until the rowdy/loud passengers get off. Imagine if the train was crowded. Are you telling me that that one elderly lady was louder than 50 passengers during rush hour on the train? Come on, let's use some common sense. If the guard ultimately thought that the best decision was to remove the passenger, there is a much gentler way to remove someone rather than pulling her off of the train the way he did. It was certainly not an escort!
Ms. Emma’s tapping on the bottle was just one way to keep her own calm, peace and sanity traveling through this chaotic world of ours. Come on America, let's get our act together.
I recommend some type of mandatory training for all security personnel responsible for holding municipal positions that would teach common sense approaches to unusual situations and circumstances.
Sincerely,
Nefertitti Jackmon
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:17:14 -0500
From: blackstar1000@ameritech.net
To: creatingartwlife@hotmail.com
Subject: Oh Hell Naw!!! 82-Year-Old Black Woman Dragged from Miami Train and Thrown to Ground by Security for Singing Spirituals !
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