Sign of the Times

HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE

I couldn't believe it...Beth and I were going to Manray on Friday night and we were taking the Red Line from Downtown Crossing to Central Square (which is another story altogether considering we were trapped underground in the sweltering heat for about 20 minutes waiting for a train because the brilliant MBTA decided to start expressing trains to Harvard Square)...

Anyway, finally, the train came and we got on with about 100 other people and pushed our way to the back of the train so we would be away from the doors...there were two middle eastern young guys sitting near us...all was well for a while, until the woman sitting next to them turned to them and asked, "You speak English?" I think they thought she was asking if they were speaking English at that very moment (which they weren't) so the one guy told her no. She exclaimed, "You don't speak any English at all?" The other guy, realizing the misunderstanding, said, "yeah we do. We're just not at the moment." She was like, "First you say you don't speak English, now you tell me that you do."
Then she goes into this tirade about how she can't understand why the fuck they would be in this country if they weren't even going to speak English (I didn't realize that we had an official national language) and about how she just doesn't trust anybody "who don't speak no English" (it sounds like you barely can either, bitch).
She was getting really belligerent and offensive and Beth and I were feeling really bad for these guys...I started making loud comments about how I had never seen so much hate and how I didn't realize that people like this really existed. Then I busted out with "Hate is not a family value." And Beth started talking about how "GW would not approve of this." Which was cracking most of the people up who were standing around us on the train...
At one point, the woman starting yelling about how they were bothering her and how they should mind their own business, to which Beth finally turned to her and said, "They were just sitting here having a conversation, minding their own business. You're the one bothering everyone." She got all pissed off about this and said, "Mind your own business, bitch..."
Finally, the train got to Central and she got off (as well as us)...we waved to the guys and they seemed to appreciate that at least there are a few people in the world willing to stand up and say that "this aggression would not stand..."

And we wonder why people from other countries hate Americans...