Hey Asians, YELLOW LINE on MARTA Isn’t Offensive!
Posted By: italian0
Filed Under: News, Opinion on February 11, 2010
I live in Atlanta, and while the city is becoming more diverse, it still is mainly Black (55%) and White(40%). I saw on the local news and THIS AJC article that the local population of Asians is pissed the eff off at MARTA for them naming a northeast ATL line the YELLOW LINE. The area where MANY asians (mainly Vietnamese, Koreans, and Chinese) live is in Doraville and Chamblee (lovely nicknamed Chambodia for obvious reasons). Although it is true that those are two of the areas on the yellow line, it is also massively populated by many Mexicans and Salvadorians. I work literally 2 miles from the Doraville stop on the Yellow Line and I can tell you I see more Mexicans on a daily basis than any group of Asians. In a weird type of thought I came to the realization that by them saying the Yellow Line is offensive due to “skin color connotations” , they are basically saying HEY WE OWN THIS PART OF TOWN.
Atlanta is stupid as hell, MARTA is very outdated and they now want to try to use color codes like the DC METRO and to a degree the MTA in NYC. First of all, MARTA really only takes you to 3 types of places; the hood, the mall, or the airport. They might as well name the northeast line the SUR 13 line, Asians don’t even use MARTA. They are too scared of blacks taking their shit. Atlanta, along with the LA area, are the two most spread out metropolises in the country and the mass transit available in this city is PATHETIC. They should seriously destroy MARTA and start fresh, most of these stops take you to the middle of nowhere if they aren’t from the three aforementioned categories I described above. If you don’t have a car in this city you might as well move to NY or London, totally effed. YELLOW LINE SCHMELLOW LINE, if they started naming north ATL stops WHITE LINES (dope song) and south ATL stops BLACK LINES, then maybe asians could start to complain. Until then chill out and keep making those Korean and Vietnamese signs all over.
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Good opinion. I especially agree where you say they dont take the train in the first place. i took marta to airport after ATL visit and it was all blacks on with me. Not one asian.