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I may have been disappointed after watching Kimbo Slice fight on The Ultimate Fighter, but I didn’t have to wait long to watch another fight — this news segment on a fight between an Asian and Black woman on a MUNI bus in San Francisco. [EDITORS NOTE: This is a censored version of the YouTube fight -- the original version is here.]
Apparently, the Chinese lady tells people on the bus that all she wanted to do was sit down, but the other lady refuses to move her bag from the other seat and does not let the Chinese lady sit down. (Ironically, the first thing I thought of was Rosa Parks.) An argument breaks out, with the Black woman woman throwing the first punch and the Asian woman retaliating — unleashing fists pounding on the head and drop kicks! All this over a seat? I’ve had to use public transportation on a everyday basis before, and I can understand that it can be uncomfortable sitting next to strangers, but if I ever felt like I didn’t want to have to sit next to anyone, I would of have simply stood up and gave my seat away.
I don’t know what’s worse –the fight or other people actually not reporting the fight. It had to take another Asian lady to break up the two women, while another man yells to the Chinese lady in the fight, “BEAT HER! BEAT HER!” According to the news and other people who have commented about this video, there’s already been numerous fights on the bus including fights that involved the bus drivers; even the man who uploaded the video mentions that he was previously attacked on the bus as well.
For those who just want to laugh at all this, there’s been several video responses by Youtubers that you can check out: Chonny portraying the Chinese lady and responding to the fight, Peter Chao warning people not to mess with old Chinese ladies, Yahsoldier1′s video explaining how people of color use slang, and AdrienChen625′s response featuring “hitmanbreakeroftheye” singing to BOOM BOOM POW.
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seriously? where do you people live?
yes, we should all be mature about situations like these but if i were attacked by a punch to the face i would retaliate as well.
had this been on a predominantly black bus, the asian lady would not have made it out alive. no one would stop the fight, and the rest of the bus would probably jump in the fight to back up the black lady.
im glad to see that at least the rest of the asians did not jump in. it was a fair fight.
the younger asian woman probably had never faced any racial tension in her life growing up in San Francisco where schools are dominantly Asian, and even more specifically, Chinese.
Show me a fight where the tables would be turned and a younger black woman would break up that fight.
by the way, im in NYC and this is how i see it.
I took this bus once. It gets SO PACKED. As someone who lives in Atlanta, I can totally appreciate this happening on public transport.
Street Fighter Muni edition. That ought to be entertaining, I'll go for the drunk hobo or the vagabonds with bags of recycled goods.
Both women are at fault. There was a lot of racial tension, especially for a black woman standing her ground amongst those Asian passengers while the Asian woman was trying to get support from them. Yes, she threw the first punch but the Asian woman was equally aggressive with those punches to the head (assault, California Penal Code 241.3). And while one passenger did step in to intervene, it's still the bus driver's responsibility to report the incident.
If I were on that bus? I would have stepped in between them and tried to calm them down, and mediate the situation.
As a daily commuter myself (one hour each way), I totally get where their rage came from. Sometimes you get unreasonably angry over the smallest things, because you've just about had it up to here with people's insensitivity. I'm surprised I don't see MORE fights break out.
I dont know what's more eff-ed up, the fact that no one is helping the lady break off the fight or the man egging her on. The whole thing is seriously retarded, why cant people have the balls do to anything?
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