Uber Driver Crosses into Non-Delightful Racism

By Si Squires-Kasten

Nov. 26, 2014

During a ride Thursday morning to Logan International Airport, Uber driver Travis Murphy moved without warning from lighthearted racial observations into what several sources confirms was “flat out racism.”

Brody Tarleton, one of Murphy’s passengers, told The Dealer that his driver’s bigotry came as a complete surprise: “I mean, one minute everyone’s having a good time – I think he was telling us about meeting a Korean rapper – and then the next he’s saying that people shouldn’t be able to wear turbans on the street after 9/11.”

“I just never, you know, pegged him as a racist, ” Tarleton continued.

“I thought we were on the same page some football players do have really strange names,” reported Carson Davis, another one of Murphy’s passengers. “Our conversation was absolutely charming until the words ‘Jew banker’ came out of his mouth.”

Uber co-founder Garrett Camp spoke out against the incident at a press conference Friday morning, pledging to distribute 10% of the company’s November profits to the ADL and NAACP, among other charities. “Uber was founded on the value of all people, regardless of color or creed, making discrimination on the basis of race by one of our employees both unexpected and unacceptable,” Camp told the assembled reporters. “But, I mean, come on. Biracial babies are the cutest.”