Unimaginative Racism is Unimaginative

[nanila]

My message to Virgin Trains Customer Relations:

Hello,
I was on the [HH:MM] on Thursday, 7 July 2016, from London Euston to Birmingham New Street. I had booked Seat [XX] in Quiet Coach [Y]. Just above my seat on the Quiet Coach sign, someone had written "BNP". Someone else had tried unsuccessfully to scratch it out, but the graffiti, as shown in the attached photo, was still clearly visible.

As a mixed-race British citizen, I found this unsettling. I did not particularly enjoy sitting underneath a blatant piece of unimaginative racist propaganda for the entirety of my journey. Would it be possible for the sign in the coach of that train to be replaced? I presume there is a way of identifying which train was running that route at that time?
Thank you,
[nanila]

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh God, yes, I got completely flamed on FB for that a couple of days ago. (And, as a bonus, mansplained at about how the three specific incidents I cited which have happened in my town in the last three weeks 'didn't count' because they were 'just anecdotal.')

It's not the same as being on the receiving end of racism, of course. I'm very worried about how we can stop things getting worse - or, sadly, more realistically, at least make things a bit better :(

[perennialanna]

I saw, and that was part of my thinking (I got a similar slap-down on another forum when I was tallying up bus racism I have heard since the vote. I've been travelling on buses in this area for over 14 years, and the atmosphere has noticeably changed in the past few weeks. Suddenly outright racism, as opposed to the nudges and "you know"s and shifting seats, has become acceptable).

I'm slightly unconvinced by the safety pins, but silence is not enough.