Normally I try to be very careful about what I put up here because some of the "aftershocks" aren't fun to deal with.  Well, for once, this has nothing to do with anyone that I know personally.

I left work early today to do a favor for some special people in my life.  Since I have to use the public transportation to travel from where I park the van I drive to my office, it's usually not a problem.  Since the area in which I work has it's fair share of African-American people, it kinda shocked me as to what happened today.

I caught the bus I needed to catch to get me to my vehicle.  Since I usually take the first available seat in the front due to getting motion sickness if I start feeling closed in, I spotted the first seat available which was with a young African-American woman.  This seat was just as good because I could stretch my knee out a bit so that I wouldn't have trouble walking later on if I kept it bent backwards. 

Well, I asked the young woman if I could sit beside her and she gets up, mutters something about white people and moves to the back of the bus leaving the original empty seat and the seat that she had occupied available.  I was stunned but not really surprised.

My parents raised me to be a very fair person.  I have friends that are of different race and nationality.  But for someone to make a comment about white people when all i asked to do was to sit in an empty seat beside her, well, it just surprised me. 

So as we were driving down the route, I look out the window and see the church that has a daily soupkitchen.  There are quite a few people standing outside waiting for the soupkitchen to open.  I noticed that most of them were elderly and also African-American. It shocked me to see as many people standing outside as there were.  What happened to Americans helping each other out???

I just don't understand how there can be people in this world who think they are so much better than others because their skin may be a different color, they may be from a different nationality or whatever.  If I had the extra money to help someone out, I would certainly do so.  Instead, I'm helping out in other ways.  I just don't understand how people can call themselves AMERICANS and then treat each other with such disrespect and illwill.