Lyft driver goes viral after rejecting ride over racist comment: \u201cYou guys can get out!\u201d LyftA Lyft Driver has gained over 30,000 followers on Twitter after a clip of him refusing customers a ride, after they made a racist comment, was seen millions of times across several tweets. Over the last few years, ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have gained mass popularity with customers and given people a new way to make money, whether their primary source of income or a \u2018side hustle.\u2019 Unlike a regular taxi service, drivers use their personal vehicles for the task. Due to this, Lyft and Uber drivers have the ability to reject a customer as they see fit \u2014 like when they make inappropriate comments as soon as they sit down. Lyft driver James Bode did just that during a recent shift, and a clip of the encounter went viral on Twitter. Since then, he\u2019s gained thousands of followers on the social media site. Lyft driver rejects customers for racist comments On May 15, 2022, Adam Parkhomenko shared the clip of James telling the racist customers to get out of his car. At the time of writing, Adam\u2019s tweet has been liked over 300,000 times, and Bode has received over 30,000 followers on Twitter. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t know who this Lyft driver is but he deserves an award and a seat in Congress.\u201d In the video, the customer can be seen getting into James\u2019 car as she instantly says: \u201cWow, you\u2019re a white guy. You\u2019re like a normal guy like you speak English?\u201d The driver instantly replied: \u201cNah, you can get out of the car, I canceled the ride. That\u2019s inappropriate.\u201d I don\u2019t know who this Lyft driver is but he deserves an award and a seat in Congress. https:\/\/t.co\/8uvYSUBqne \u2014 Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 15, 2022 The clip was met by a flood of positive responses to how the driver handled the situation. One user replied: \u201cThis should be how everyone responds to racism. That\u2019s how we get rid of it. That\u2019s really it. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d This should be how everyone responds to racism. That\u2019s how we get rid of it. That\u2019s really it. It\u2019s that simple. \u2014 Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) May 15, 2022 While another user replied, explaining that he thinks this is what it means to be \u201canti-racist.\u201d This guy showed what it means to not just be not racist but to be anti-racist \u2014 anthgulino (@anthgulino) May 15, 2022 All in all, it appears that James\u2019 reaction has been universally appreciated by all kinds of people as a way to potentially put a stop to comments like those left by the couple. He has yet to make a public comment on his newfound popularity \u2014 but we\u2019ll be sure to update if he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lyft driver goes viral after rejecting ride over racist comment: \u201cYou guys can get out!\u201d LyftA Lyft Driver has gained over 30,000 followers on Twitter after a clip of him refusing customers a ride, after they made a racist comment, was seen millions of times across several tweets. Over the last few years, ride-sharing apps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}