Thursday, August 27, 2009

Travel and Racism

It's 3 hours to boarding; 10 hours to Paris; 1 more to the hotel. And I've got a sunburn on my back that would make a baboon's ass jealous. Still, I'll be in good company, assuming I see anyone else from Colby. And, though my iPod is dead, the voice in the ceilings is suggesting I “enjoy the sounds of Logan Airport;” I think I'll do just that. At least until I can convince Wok & Roll Sushi to give me access to their WiFi. For the record, Wok & Roll, I find it suspicious that you only employ people of Asian descent - people of all creeds enjoy your Sbarro-style rack of raw fish.

Whoa. I just did a quick profile of the staff in the duty free area. No joke, not only is everyone at Wok & Roll,I want to guess Korean?, but Sbarro's is exclusively white, and the three people at Starbucks are all as dark as the beans. Way to segregate, Duty Free Area; way to segregate.

Further inspection shows an exception: The Earl of Sandwich is fighting the status quo of Logan Airport Duty Free Area and employing both a young hip white girl and an older Oprah-esque black woman. The friendship that blossoms between these two as they better understand the artificiality of the boundaries between them is practically begging for a soap opera treatment. Doubtless, the entire Duty free Area is destined for a radical re-imagining.

3 comments:

  1. I must say that i am extatic that you have started a blog preston so that i may enjoy your opinions and insights al the way from france

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  2. I once enjoyed the sounds of Logan Airport for five hours. That was then topped by seven hours in Santiago, Chile. I never did find out what was so special about the sounds of Logan...

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  3. Thank you for your support, Mike, I hope i can count on you to broaden my audience.

    And to answer your question, Dan, I believe the sound of Logan are special because they are so similar to the sounds outside of Logan. Special, yes; pleasant? No.

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