\”I admit that the reason I don\’t want to visit you is because as you get farther away from San Francisco on the BART, it gets whiter. I am afraid of white people.\” a friend said several years ago.

At the time, I was slighted. We were classmates in Berkeley. I drove to visit her in the city, out in the projects, where I got lost multiple times and was slightly fearful that someone would break into my car. She didn\’t want to take the BART out to the safer suburbs where I lived, where Caucasian people were dominant and Asians were not.

Looking back, perhaps, she was afraid that she was judged. But it wasn\’t that she wore clothes that weren\’t equivalent to clothes of people out here. Or she acted lesser than those in affluent suburbs. The demographics do change depending on the direction of the BART train. It\’s true that riding BART on the yellow line towards Pittsburg/Bay Point, the riders became more and more Caucasians. Usually business people avoiding the traffic from San Francisco. It wasn\’t people who didn\’t have a car or the elderly who didn\’t have shuttles. It was more about people who wanted to save the environment and bought discount passes from corporate employers.