The PC police are at it again. Now they say the mere use of the word “yellow” is offensive to Asians.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the saffron-ish details:
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta’s Asian community the “yellow line” will take their objections to the transit agency’s chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
No more yellow lights. No more yellow-bellied sapsuckers. No more yellow cowards.
And, of course, no more sanity.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
