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Stellar

(5,644 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:11 PM Apr 2016

Twitter User Captures Video of Elderly Black Man Beating Racist White Guy After Being Called N-Word



Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive.

What was supposed to be a normal train ride in Chicago for Twitter user @raresoulx turned out to be the complete opposite. According to @raresoulx, a drunken white passenger on the train repeatedly called an elderly black man the n-word for 15 minutes. After being verbally accosted, the unidentified black man took matters into his own hands, literally. And it was, of course, captured on video.


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Twitter User Captures Video of Elderly Black Man Beating Racist White Guy After Being Called N-Word (Original Post) Stellar Apr 2016 OP
I think I saw this yesterday? JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #1
I generally don't like such violence, but my grin got bigger each time I watched that. Hoyt Apr 2016 #2
Shame on you. To watch this old guy fighting is kind of funny in a way... Stellar Apr 2016 #3
Where I live there are a lot of skin head types. Watching an older gentleman in blue blazer and hat Hoyt Apr 2016 #4
i support the beating bluestateguy Apr 2016 #5
This is one ass whooping rbrnmw Apr 2016 #6
I'm with you on that! brer cat Apr 2016 #7
yeah me too that asshole begged for that whooping rbrnmw Apr 2016 #8
Don't write checks with your mouth your ass can't cash. Starry Messenger Apr 2016 #9
His shoes fell off! wildeyed Apr 2016 #10
Okay, that was Funny! Stellar Apr 2016 #14
Whoop That Trick! lib87 Apr 2016 #11
Lol. Didn't even take his blazer off. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2016 #12
Was this white guy looking to get beaten?...15 minutes of the N-word? rusty quoin Apr 2016 #13

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)
1. I think I saw this yesterday?
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:15 PM
Apr 2016

Not at DU though -


And while I don't condone violence I have to say . . .


He whooped him!

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
3. Shame on you. To watch this old guy fighting is kind of funny in a way...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:19 PM
Apr 2016

but sad too that he was pushed in to this.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. Where I live there are a lot of skin head types. Watching an older gentleman in blue blazer and hat
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:30 PM
Apr 2016

educating him -- after taking his racist crud for quite awhile -- is somewhat satisfying. I did think as he was hitting him on the ground, that thank god that is not a george zimmerman type. But I agree, sad some punk pushed him to that.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
5. i support the beating
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:39 PM
Apr 2016

It is my opinion that if you are called a racist or homophobic name, it is your moral right to beat the ever-loving crap out of the racist or homophobe.

brer cat

(24,568 posts)
7. I'm with you on that!
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:16 PM
Apr 2016

For some folks, my rule is: ask and you shall receive.

I'm just sorry the older gentleman had to endure the baiting.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
13. Was this white guy looking to get beaten?...15 minutes of the N-word?
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:54 PM
Apr 2016

The more likely result would have been a group of younger people kicking his ass.

But the 75 y/o guy did it. Good for him, but there is so much racism outwardly out there today. It makes me nothing but sad that the guy in his later years had to endure it to the point of having to react like that.

I would like it in a movie, but I don't like it for real. It really says a lot about this society in which we live.

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