This is all I have to say about this completely misguided "conversation."
First of all, it started with what everyone's opinion about the biggest fault of MARTA was. My opinion had to do with a lack of safety, and this came from my personal experience, which I shared. I had no idea that it would a) apparently offend people on this board (and you could have messaged me, and I would have apologized and tried to make things right), and b) start a riot.
Also, some of these attacks are baseless and immature. Someone on here assumes I wear boat shoes, too short shorts, and pink polos? I don't, fyi. And if I did, would you really hit me? Because that is just plain juvenile. (This is one example of a personal attack against me).
The others: My story must be false because MARTA does not run at 11. Yes it does Tarheel, and quite a bit later, too.
Another: I must be lying because those thugs said "kill whitie." First of all, I never used the word kill. Second of all, word for word it might have been something closer to "beat that white boy's ass." I did not feel like going over my Case Narrative word for word again, so I tried shortening things up. Besides, I was wearing a nice watch, which was visible, I had a wallet, and other valuables they could have taken, but they did not. They simply beat me up. I do not claim to know their motive, but all i will say is I was an apparent easy target (probably because of my "minority" status in the station), and they were not out to rob me.
Thanks Cybele for being someone who is clearly reading what I am posting and not taking anything out of context or trying to conjure up falsehoods from it. I do appreciate it and I did not think that simple attacks from faceless people on a skyscraper forum would get to me, but they did a little and your posts were a breath of fresh air.
An out of context example (which how do you take typed words out of context? spoken - easily, written - much more difficult): I said, referring to the MARTA girl video, that a normal blonde haired and blue eyed guy might feel uncomfortable in that crowd. I did not type, or think for those of you who read between the lines, that normal only includes blonde and blue. I just described myself as normal. It would be akin to me saying (if I were African American or gay) that I might feel uncomfortable being the only AA or gay at a white southern Baptist Convention (or lets go the exteme route and say KKK rally...I think MARTA girl situation was somewhere between the two in extremes of people).
Finally, I know I do not have the greatest street smarts and that I should not have tried to ride MARTA alone at night, but given the circumstances and given my naivete to the immorals of people, I did not think that this would ever happen to me.
To you guys who have not experienced that, I can understand why MARTA might seem safer than a car ride to you. However, because I have never been in a wreck or have had any major incidents in a car, and I have had this horrible thing happen to me in a lot fewer MARTA rides than car rides (and I have witnessed other things on MARTA), to me a car is a helluva lot safer than riding MARTA.
I take a girl home from work on the weekends who would normally have to ride MARTA; she is an African American girl who lives in Stone Mountain (train to bus transfer), and she is much happier riding with me than riding in those trains/busses at night.
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Originally Posted by delarosa
Firstly, I certainly wasn't attacking you, unless requesting facts is an attack.
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When I said "you can attack me personally or you can attack my opinion" I was not directly referring too you. It just seemed that almost everyone has been attacking me personally, even though nobody here has met me, and at this rate nobody sure as hell will.
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one more thing, notice how none of the guys defended that poor old lady, but defended themselves and each other when she accused one of them of raping her. Outside of rush hour, these are the riders of MARTA. Some worse, few better. Tell me it is a safe joyride after watching this. 
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