Open Letter to Iyanna Washington

Dear Iyanna,

I wanted to write you today to offer you a sincere note of thanks. With an apology.

You see, having grown up and also worked in several college towns in the United States, and also having started college but never finished it, I was laboring under the notion that as someone who had no college degree I was always a less-than... which automatically doomed me to being a have-not. You see, to me, a college education meant you were going somewhere, that you had a bright future, that you were intelligent enough to be educated, and to NOT have a college education meant that you were at best pond scum, and at worst, doomed to depend financially on a husband or wife for your daily sustenance.

I honestly wanted to thank you for your straight forward method of disabusing me of this notion.

In your dealings with the Epic Beard Man aboard the transit vehicle, you exhibited anything BUT the fact that you were a college student, unless that is what is being taught in college nowadays. I can guess that your major is not in law or criminal justice, because of the way you recorded Tyrone throwing the first punch, and then threatened to have charges brought against the Epic Beard Man for subsequently beating Tyrone to a bloody pulp, to say nothing of purloining his bag.

And "Beat His White Ass?" "Pinky?" From this I can determine that your major is also not in social work or psychology, for the way that you speak of a Vietnam veteran with obvious post traumatic stress disorder. Nor is it in math, because of the obvious way in which you were unable to put two and two together -- you were afterwards accusing him of the very racism that the whole Youtube community HEARD YOU UTTERING.

This leaves me to conclude that your major could be in science, as after all, you correctly identified the substance flowing out of Tyrone's face as blood.

Thank you for confirming what I had long held as a suspicion; that college education does not equal intelligence, moral superiority, class, moxie, or even worthiness to ask for the time of day from someone like me who does not have a college degree, but at least I know how NOT to treat my fellow human beings.

Now for an apology. I'm sorry that your parents, Sallie Mae, or whoever disbursed the funds for your tuition wasted the money.

Sincerely,

The Management