Racist Romantique Limo Driver Picked Up The Wrong Honky

The first New Yorker I ever met was a racist Romantique Limo driver from Brooklyn that Anderson Cooper paid to pick me up from the airport so I could get lost looking for Patrick Bateman's apartment on my way to a hotel on the upper west side supposedly just 2 blocks from the American Gardens Building on West 81st street. Upon further review the American Gardens Building was found not to exist, at least not at 55 W 81st street just 2 blocks away from the hotel where I was staying. As a result I had no choice, but to take a nap for 3 hours before getting up, getting dressed, and showing up at the studio at 5 AM PST.

If that was not bad enough I had the memory of the previous night to deal with. A night in which I found myself in the back of an Escalade driven by an old overweight white guy with a foreign accent sounding somewhat like English, but altered due to a speech impediment commonly referred to as a Brooklyn accent.

The racist Romantique told me, a complete stranger that the street he was chauffeuring me down separated the upper east side from Harlem and that he wanted to give me the layout of the city as simply as possible. He said that the layout is easy to remember because it is very simple, "the monkeys live on the right and the rich white people live on the left".

I couldn't believe my ears, but I didn't want to piss the driver off, so I acted like I was cool with it at first before eventually telling him that his comment was "f*cked up", that I've known a number of them so called "monkeys" he was talking about, and that several were friends of mine. He didn't open his mouth much after that.

Eventually he dropped me off at which point he still had a business card I gave him shortly after leaving the airport and long before he showed me his racist side. It was a number on that card which some people have stalked me for and as a result I'm usually reluctant to share it with people. As a victim now I am willing to come forward as the guy who lobbied a producer not to report racism because I didn't want to get on the bad side of whoever that driver was.

Conclusion

I'm ranting about a true and genuine experience with a racist Romantique Limo driver hired by the Anderson Cooper show. I doubt Anderson or his staff had any idea how racist my driver was, but in the future I recommend not using that guy.