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Road Rage: ‪Someone Called Me Ugly Stupid Black Ass

Brandi NoBarExam West
2 min readSep 14, 2019

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I was driving down the street in a black low income neighborhood. I dropped off a DoorDash order in the area.

While trying to make my way from that community there was a car on my bumper. I pulled over in over to allow the car to go around. (This is what I normally do when a vehicle is driving on my bumper. I am not changing my driving speed).

The car sped off to a red light. They were turning left and I was turning right. ‬ I gradually drove toward the. red light. It took me about 10–20 secs to get to the ref light. My window was cracked.

When I got toward the red light — a black female from the car yelled in a country accent,

“Your ugly stupid black ass.”

I didn’t look or say anything back.

Road Rage is very interesting

However, people need to get out their feelings. I don’t have road rage to the point I have to roll my window down to yell at people. I remember seeing this guy stick his middle finger up at a driver. It was frieghtening to watch. I am not saying I’m perfect or don’t have anger issue, but driving is not something I get my panties in a bunch about.

Why I don’t get road rage

  • I don’t own the road
  • If somebody died or dying — well they gotta die at some point
  • For the most part, I am mild tempered
  • Driving is not that serious

Years ago, my mother told me that I needed to have more compassion. I bring my compassion on the road.

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