Atlanta's Transit System Changes 'Yellow Line' to 'Gold' After Asian Outrage

foxnews.com ^ | Feb. 11, 2010

[Free ThinkerNY]

Atlanta's transit system will rename a train route into the heart of the city's Asian community in response to complaints that calling it the "yellow line" showed a lack of racial sensitivity.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing it would change the name of the line to the "gold line."

"The expressed concerns regarding the use of the phrase 'yellow line' will be addressed in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner possible," MARTA officials said in the statement.

The move to change the name to "gold" coincides with the demands of some advocates in the Asian community.

[outhousepatrol]

“Here’s a clue. Asians are not really yellow.”

Indians aren’t really red

Horse rears come in all sorts of colors!

[DeFault User]

We can’t even use colors now without someone getting their panties in a wad.

Only several years ago did I hear that the term "Oriental" was racist and demeaning, but I didn't understand why. Finally, my PC daughter explained, "Would you want to be referred to like a piece of furniture or a rug?"

Huh? Oriental rug makes the term "oriental" racist..... Ok, following that logic "white" is demeaning because we might use terms like "white elephant", "white lightning" or "white sale". Right? .....Guess not.

I've never been called an occidental, but I don't think I would get upset.

[metmom]

*sigh*......

[Clemenza]

Moving Amish Rapidly Through Atlanta?

[Clemenza]

I am white, but not really white. I am actually a mixture of beige, grey, and pink.

[Kickass Conservative]

This is a joke, right?

I guess Obama will be protesting the Red Line now.

[Kickass Conservative]

Rename it the Jaundice Line.

[Sloth]

If they don’t like the MARTA they should just wok.

[eyedigress]

This thread deserved no response on FR. Period

[xrmusn]

Won’t that offend those Asians with Gold Buck Teeth?

[bjorn14]

Don’t forget it probably offended the “high yellows” segment of the African-American population too.

[VeniVidiVici]

You all can drop Helen Kim an email or visit her website at www.cpacs.org and tell her what a smashingly grand example of diversity this is.

cpacs@cpacs.org

[tet68]

They should have just changed the name to
Bocoup Yayae Line.

[SamAdams76]

In 1971, given the lack of support for MARTA by the five funky counties, then Mayor Sam Massell came on back with a new groovy plan: to provide an ongoing subsidy for MARTA through a sales tax on prophylactics levied in Fulton, DeKalb, and the swinging City of Atlanta. No other boogie-woogie jurisdiction in Georgia had a local option prophylactic tax, so the General Assembly had to approve the idea, dumb as it was. When the notoriously anti-Atlanta legislators gave the go-ahead, Massell called a press conference that featured a flatbed truck pulling up in front of city hall full of watermelons, facing the Capitol, with a large billboard that said, “Thank You, Georgia Lawmakers, you big spending liberals!” Massell then dug a hole in the city hall lawn and buried one of the watermelons to symbolize his appreciation for what he really thought of the plan.

In a promotional stunt worthy of Mad Men, Massell sent a bevy of young women to the Capitol in pink hot pants with little keys to the city sewn into the linings of their bras, a proclamation expressing the city’s gratitude, and invitations to city hall for a lunch featuring fried chicken (for Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox), peanuts (for Governor Jimmy Carter), and, of course, watermelon for the other tax-and-spend politicians. “We got a four-column picture—the biggest exposure we ever got from the Atlanta newspapers,” recalls Massell, now president of the Buckhead Coalition. "Now we are really going to make things happen in this town."