Marta "yellow line" to Doraville angers some in Asian community

Atlanta Journal and Consitution ^ | 2/8/10 | Dan Chapman and Ariel Hart

[doodad]

Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta's Asian community the "yellow line" will take their objections to the transit agency's chief on Friday.

“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.

MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.

“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”

Park and other Asian activists plan to meet Friday with MARTA CEO Beverly Scott. They hope MARTA will change the line’s name from yellow to gold.

Scott said Monday that she will go into the meeting with an open mind. "There are very few things in this life that are absolute," she said.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

My son lives in Warner Robins, I go through Memory Lane when I use 675 to 285 to get back to North GA which is when it is only me in the car, (Can't use the HOV lane). I like to see if I can remember the old shortcuts. I can, but they are not shortcuts anymore.

Other than that I hardly leave Forsyth County, rarely below Exit 13. Who’da thunk? Kind of scary.

[TexasRepublic]

I did not realize yellow skin is so thin.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Maybe the “Whine Line” would be more accurate?

America, land of thin skins and big mouths.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Now that’s wee-wee’d up.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Moving Asians Rapidly Through Atlanta

[WOBBLY BOB]

[Gaffer]

Decades and decades ago I used to live in some apartments on Chamblee road just east of that golfing/recreation area on Buford Highway...Chambodia....ha ha..