Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

Even when they don’t make a bad decision. See, being black and just living in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

We’re you born a complete d!ck or did you become one along the way. Wow,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

Perhaps this will help you understand, pp. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps&feature=youtu.be

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

Thanks for answering my question: you’ve always been a dick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

Wow. You’re a completely terrible person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Wait wait wait. Are you talking about Book Lady? Because that's not her livelihood. She works at the World Bank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

YOU ARE READY TO TAKE AWAY METRO LADY’S!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Wow
Hotbed of racism this thread is .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

If you are poor you have to do everything right for twenty years to get out of poverty. That’s even more difficult if you are a highly policed person of color. I have never ever stolen anything. Do you know how often I am accused of stealing? All the time just for being in a store where the employees think I shouldn’t be. Meanwhile, my white coworker accidentally took home a case of water she didn’t pay for and when she tried to pay for it the next day, she was told not to worry. I feel 100% certain if I’d forgotten that case under my cart, I never would have made it as far as my car before security tackled me.

[Anonymous]

Does Book Lady own a motorcycle?
I swear this looks just like her brand of stupidity.