today i was waiting for a train at the powell BART station, and the station agent started freaking out and telling people not to give money to panhandlers, or moreover, this specific guy who was panhandling outside of the station. now for one thing, it has always been accepted for people to pandhandle outside (and usually inside) the stations and long as you’re not past the turnstiles. but what was really fucked up is she said (quote) “there’s a black guy panhandling outside the bart station, please don’t give him any money”. WTF? no one else seemed to be freaked out or even notice this. then she called the fucking bart police on him? do people think this is acceptable? it’s not like he was robbing anyone (which is probably a much better approach to overpriveleged people)… i’m as annoyed as anyone when gutterpunks spange me, partly because i used to be one, partly because a good part of them are trust fun kids, and most of today’s generation is disrespectful and doing it wrong. some of my best friends are gutterpunks and i could rant about this, but the point is i saw this guy on the way in and he was WAY too fucked up to get a job. not everyone can. people still need to eat and maybe get drunk and do drugs or whatever. fuck racist/classist station agents. i think the nation of bartistan is going downhill faster.
