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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:39 PM Mar 2015

Baton Rouge Transit CEO Blames Woes On Black Bus Drivers Who 'Don't Match' White Skin Color

Again, not Borowitz!

Bob Mirabito, CEO of Baton Rouge's Capital Area Transit System (CATS), apologized this week after asserting that busses were not being used by white passengers because there were not enough white drivers.

During an interview last week, podcaster Clay Young had asked Mirabito how he handled the "racial divide" at CATS after taking over the CEO job.

“CATS is actually 95 percent African-American," Mirabito explained, according to The Advocate. "And unfortunately our demographics don’t match Baton Rouge."

"I would love to have a workforce that matches the demographics of Baton Rouge because I think there are some people out there who may not ride CATS buses because they don’t like the color of an operator’s skin."

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Baton Rouge Transit CEO Blames Woes On Black Bus Drivers Who 'Don't Match' White Skin Color (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP

OH MY DOG? marym625 Mar 2015 #1

1846. Rex Mar 2015 #3

damn straight marym625 Mar 2015 #6

It's scary! The GOP really wants some kind of fundamentalist, disaster capitalism type country. Rex Mar 2015 #7

Ever marym625 Mar 2015 #8

They already have it. Why do you think so many black men are incarcerated? valerief Mar 2015 #9

True. Black people have never been totally free in American society. Rex Mar 2015 #10

Racism alive an well in Baton Rouge. Rex Mar 2015 #2

jaysus. not only is a racist pig, but he's an idiot. cali Mar 2015 #4

this fuckwit's non-apology "apology" may be the worst I've ever seen: cali Mar 2015 #5

What an odd world this asshole lives in. nt valerief Mar 2015 #11

Seems he's accusing all the white people there geek tragedy Mar 2015 #12

Hardly KamaAina Mar 2015 #13

marym625

(17,997 posts)

1. OH MY DOG?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:40 PM

Mar 2015

So we're actually living in 1946 it seems.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

3. 1846.

Reply to marym625 (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:41 PM

Mar 2015

I SWEAR it seems like the GOP wants to bring back slavery!

marym625

(17,997 posts)

6. damn straight

Reply to Rex (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:47 PM

Mar 2015

This time though, it's equal opportunity slavery. Just going to start with the black people. They'll kill the ones they think are too "uppity." Then move on to all poor. Just stone the LGBT to death, why bother with them (us)?

They've already got their oligarchy. Just a matter of time.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

7. It's scary! The GOP really wants some kind of fundamentalist, disaster capitalism type country.

Reply to marym625 (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:50 PM

Mar 2015

They are the biggest threat to the USA since...I dunno when!

marym625

(17,997 posts)

8. Ever

Reply to Rex (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:51 PM

Mar 2015

It's exactly what Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson warned us could happen.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

9. They already have it. Why do you think so many black men are incarcerated?

Reply to Rex (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 02:03 PM

Mar 2015

Slave labor!

Rex

(65,616 posts)

10. True. Black people have never been totally free in American society.

Reply to valerief (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 02:08 PM

Mar 2015

Not even to this day. Some might feel like the are free, but just let them get pulled over by a cop. That fantasy goes away real fast.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

2. Racism alive an well in Baton Rouge.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:40 PM

Mar 2015

I hope he ends up living in a dumpster.

cali

(114,904 posts)

4. jaysus. not only is a racist pig, but he's an idiot.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:42 PM

Mar 2015

cali

(114,904 posts)

5. this fuckwit's non-apology "apology" may be the worst I've ever seen:

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:45 PM

Mar 2015

"I apologize. It was never my intention to offend anyone, and I am sorry that my comments on a recent podcast have distracted our community from our continued push to move our transit system forward," Mirabito said in a statement released Tuesday evening. "My comment, heard in its entirety, was not racially motivated, and I apologize that is the impression it has given people."