As you all know, on Saturday, August 28th 2010, Glenn Beck is hosting a rally at The Lincoln Memorial to restore MLK's Dream (Excuse me but I have to throw up first). Well since most of the Attendees won't be from Washington DC, a Tea Party Activist, from Maine, wrote the Perfect Guide for T-Baggers. In this guide, you will learn that D.C is "full of Africans and Arabs" and that Green Line and Yellow Line of the D.C Metro must be avoided.
According to TPM, Tea Party activist Bruce Majors warned his fellows t-baggers against the danger of Washington D.C.
In fact, on his blog, Bruce Majors wrote :
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.
If on foot or in a cab or bus, stay in Bethesda, Arlington (preferably north Arlington), Crystal City, Falls Church, Annandale, or Alexandria, or in DC only in northwest DC west (i.e. larger street numbers) of 14th or 16th streets, or if on Capitol Hill only in SE Capitol Hill (zip 20003) between 1st and 8th Streets, not farther out than 8th (e.g. 9th, 10th etc). (Or stay on the Mall and at the various monuments.) Again there are many other lovely places, from the Catholic University of America to Silver Spring, Maryland. But you don't know where you are so you cannot go, especially at night, unless you take me with you.
You should read the comments next to Majors' post. They are both scary and hilarious.
So the Green Line or the Yellow Line should not be taken T-Baggers because it's "too dangerous".
Anyway, as someone who actually lives him D.C, Huffington Post's Jason Linkins assures that there are no "rules" that state these subway lines must be avoided at all times. Jason wrote :
But then, I guess I'm not using "A Cliche-Ridden Guide To Avoiding The Black People On The Subway In Washington" as a rulebook. Ironically, one needs to ride the Green/Yellow line in order to visit the National Archives, where the Constitution of the United States is housed. (Not that these rally attendees have any particular reverence for that document.)
Rachel Maddow covered the story :
UPDATE : Thank you all for recommending this diary :)
UPDATE II : Tweety is making fun of that blogger right now on Hardball ! Hilarious