May 29, 2009

So can’t I be American and drive a cab?

Filed under: Commentary — Chicago Taxi Guy @ 10:14 pm

Well a lot has happened to me today and it brought up a serious subject for us cab drivers. Racism, and road rage directed at us for no reason. I’m American born and just because I drive a cab, It doesn’t mean I’m from another country, but there are those out there that believe that to be a cab driver you must be from another country. Today a U.S.Navy vet cut me off and called me an asshole and a Sand nigger. So me, an american being of European decent, logically in his mind; I must come from the middle east, because I’m driving a cab. Really??…. ohh and by the way 90% of the vets I have encountered always assume I’m an immigrant. Yep if you drive a cab not only do you get treated like crap by consumer services, Cops, Pedestrians, city officials, and now Vets. A vet attacked my cab in the beginning of the month scratching the side of my car and saying I can’t park there when I was just dropping off some customers. It seems to me the vets have a problem with this thing called Democracy and Freedom. I mean hi lets pick on the cab driver because he is not from here. So lets get one thing straight to all you veterans out there leave me alone. I don’t want to debate you if I’m an immigrant or not. Hell your the immigrant too moron. And serving in the Army doesn’t give you special privileges to attack people on the street because they don’t share your whiteness. Oh and lets not forget you haven’t fought for any bodies freedom here in America since world war 2. And calling me a Liberal doesn’t excuse the fact that when you wear a uniform you don’t represent the Army. The guy today made the Navy look like a bunch of Pussies. When you wear your uniform you represent everything that uniform stands for so thanks. It’s not enough for people to randomly cut us off and give us the finger and scream racist remarks but now I have to watch myself around Military douche bags that attack some one because they think there immigrants. This has been going on for too long. So if your a vet or in the Army, navy, marines etc. reading this I hope you talk about what it means to wear the uniform that your wearing because I pay for it with my share of taxes too, so show some respect.

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