Why write about racial fairness? Because all oppression is connected, no matter who is being oppressed in the course of category-forming and othering (white-or-minority; male-or-female; human-or-not). The issue is oppression, and why we human primates can’t seem to stop it.

So this article in the weekend edition of CounterPunch is about how the Philadelphia region’s transit system (in its current state) perpetuates an unjust social hierarchy, and how people in the suburbs are implicated.

They say it’s just not possible to take the bus out here. You’re really car-dependent.

Behold our inherent vulnerability in a social system focused on the primacy of private cars over public transit.

Car-dependent.

And still, somehow, the bigger your car, the tougher you are. Are you? Take the bus, buttercup. Sit down with folk who make your lifestyle possible every day…

Read the full piece, now on CounterPunch.