RIPTA bus driver is over-vilified here
Permalink Submitted by Ron Ruggieri on Thu, 2015-05-28 15:09
I
am finding more fault with RIPTA than with their working stiff bus
drivers. My brother Mike is a retired RIPTA bus driver. The driver also
seems to be a victim of prejudice-CLASS prejudice. Talk Radio celebrity
Gene Valicenti likened him to the Jackie Gleason character, Ralph
Kramden, in the old TV series " The Honeymooners ".
The American middle class is conditioned to see blue collar workers as rude, crude, and ignorant.
The Liberian group here is absolutely wrong to want this RIPTA bus driver fired. To be sure, no unionized workers should ever insist that some other working class person should be fired.
But sadly RIPTA bus drivers can become contemptuous themselves of daily bus riders perceived as " lower class " or worse " illegal aliens ".
Let us all first try to UNDERSTAND the problem here.
[ I am more concerned right now about that RIPTA victim, Bobbie Moore, crushed by a bus on Broad ST. in Providence. Scott Avedisian has tried to blame the victim here ]
The American middle class is conditioned to see blue collar workers as rude, crude, and ignorant.
The Liberian group here is absolutely wrong to want this RIPTA bus driver fired. To be sure, no unionized workers should ever insist that some other working class person should be fired.
But sadly RIPTA bus drivers can become contemptuous themselves of daily bus riders perceived as " lower class " or worse " illegal aliens ".
Let us all first try to UNDERSTAND the problem here.
[ I am more concerned right now about that RIPTA victim, Bobbie Moore, crushed by a bus on Broad ST. in Providence. Scott Avedisian has tried to blame the victim here ]
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