Only this woman truly knows the reason why she didn’t want Etan Thomas to sit next to her on the train. What we do know is she lied about the initial reason, so that doesn’t help her case much.
Here is Ethan telling the story on Facebook.
Once again, only she knows the real reason, but playing the “a dated a black guy in college” card once again didn’t help her case.
What I can say is as a black man in our society, these incidents happen on a daily basis. You hear how Etan said he tried to be “less threatening”? It is sad that we as black men have to do these things to make white people more comfortable about stereotypes they created about us.
When it comes to exposing a person like that, I don’t know if it is something I’d would do, because if she didn’t want him to sit there because he is extremely tall (unlikely but not impossible) then she has been put on blast for no reason.
Whatever the case, you get another glimpse of what it is like to be a black man in America.