A Ph.D. candidate who was traveling on a Greyhound bus from Dallas to a conference in Kansas City, Missouri, this month says he was kicked off at 3 a.m. during a stop in Wichita, Kansas, because his name is Mohammad.
“The driver lady came to me and woke me up and asked for my ticket. I showed her my ticket on my phone. Seeing my name on the ticket, which is ‘Mohammad,’ she told me ‘Your ticket is not acceptable and since you don’t have a printed version of it, you have to leave the bus,’” wrote Mohammad Reza Sardari on Facebook early this month alongside video of his argument with the driver.
Reza—who specializes in urban planning and transportation engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and won a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—said he retrieved his printed-out ticket in his backpack and showed it to the driver. “Again she asked me to leave the bus. I asked for the reason and she responded ‘I don’t want to talk to you!’” he wrote.
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