TRANSCRIPT:
Black man: …AC Transit
White man: Let’s get back to business. How much you charge me for a spit-shine?
Black man: what?
White man: How much you charge me for my Stacy Adams? I’m going to a funeral on Friday…You said you… [note: Stacy Adams are a brand of shoe.]
Black man: Did you get what I said just now?
White man: Yes
Black man: Why’d a brother gotta spit-shine your shoes?
White man: You offered!
Black man: I didn’t offer you shit.
White man: What’d you just say when you walked by me?
Black man: I said why, why a fuckin’ brother gotta spit-shine your shoes?
White man: You don’t have to!
Black man: Why a white man can’t spit-shine –
White man: [interrupting] – It could be a Chinaman! It don’t matter!
Black man: Look dude…
White man: I ain’t prejudice! What? You think I’m prejudice!
Black man: [pointing toward front of bus] Take your ass back up there and get the fuck out my face right now.
White man: Why you being so hostile, man?
Black man: ‘Cause. I’m pissed off.
White man: Well its better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Black man: Take your ass up there right now
White man: [standing to go to the front] You ain’t scarin’ this white boy. I’m 67 years old. You ain’t scarin’ me. You ain’t scarin’ me.
Black man: [now, also standing] I’m 50.
White man: You ain’t scared of me. You ain’t scarin’ me.
Black man: I’ll put my foot up your ass.
Older white man: No you won’t! No you won’t!
Another passenger makes remarks. The white man moves to the front of the bus as the two exchange threats to whoop each other’s asses.
White man: You won’t do nothin’ to me! [then something unintelligible]
Black man: Say it again! [then something unintelligible as woman who was filming talks over him]
Iyanna Washington: Say it again! Say it again, Pinky!
The black man begins walking to the front of the bus.
Someone off camera whom many allege is Iyanna Washington: Beat his white ass! Whoop his ass!
Another passenger: Leave him alone!
The two men seem to be speaking to one another at the front of the bus, but cannot be heard over the noise from the rest of the passengers.
Iyanna Washington: It ain’t worth it, blood, it ain’t worth it.
The black man begins walking back to his seat as other passengers continue to comment.
Black man: I’d put my foot up your ass.
White man: I see tough guys like you and I slap the shit out of them.
Black man: What?!
Another passenger: Stop it!
The black man walks to the front again to continue the confrontation.
At 1:40, the black guy lunges at the white guy, appearing to either shove or strike him in the chest, but the blow is mostly deflected by the white guy’s arm.
The white man stands up and punches him in the face repeatedly. At least 9 punches can be seen, then the camera moves too much to get a clear view.
At 1:51 the black man can be seen shielding his face.
White man: Don’t fuck with me! He hit me! He fuckin’ hit me!
As can be seen earlier in the video, the black man attempted to shove him, but did not hit him.
The old white man exits the bus.
White man: He fuckin’ hit me first! He hit me in the face! [unintelligible] – self defense!
At 2:07, blood spatter is visible on the seats of the bus.
At 2:22 Iyanna picks up a bag left by the old man.
Iyanna: Open that shit! laughs
Various passengers comment on what they’ve witnessed.
Iyanna: We can press charges, blood. I got in on videotape. He’s leakin’.
Black man: That motherfucker hit me. No no no no no.
Another passenger: Did he break your teeth?
Black man: No. Bring an amb-lance.
Because of the man’s bleeding, injured face, his pronunciation of the word “Ambulance” has been misheard by many as either “bring M&M’s” or “bring amber lamps.” Both variants were turned into image macros.
Then there are some more remarks from various passengers, and the scene ends with a shot of a bench reading “Keep our city clean & safe. Do your part.”
One of the most distrubing parts of this video is the raw racial hatred of the black passengers, and their use of derogatory racial epithets.
I know if I had been a passenger on this bus I would not have started hurling N-bombs at the instigator. I don’t use that kind of language even alone with close friends, and would never consider using it on a public bus.
“Say it. Say it again, Pinky”.
‘Pinky’ is short for Pink MF, one of the most current anti-white racial put downs, for those not up on their ebonics.
Then, seemingly another black woman’s voice:”
“Beat his white ass! Whoop his ass!”
This video would be on CNN every 13 minutes if it contained audio of a several white passengers saying “Say it. Say it again Darkie” “Beat him. Beat his black ass..”
So, even in the public reaction to it, there is a double standard. Whites expect and accept that they will be taunted with racial epethets, but are trained into sucking it up and ignoring it. You don’t want to start an incident.
We are not to look up, not to notice the mumbled rude comments, to quietly move away from the people like this.
Even the act of video taping him is provocative and rude. What reaction would a white person get sitting in the back of a bus video-taping black people? It would not go unremarked, it would not be permitted likely by the blacks.
Strangely the biggest thing going for the white guy is that it *was* videotaped.
Does anyone seriously doubt that, in the abscence of the tape the same people yelling “beat his white ass” would have been swearing out statements insisting the white guy threw the first punch, the white guy used the “N” word, etc.
Even so, I have heard that Epic Bearded Man was arrested.
If true, it’s a joke.
Taken as a whole it seems to demonstrate to me that we have actually REVERSED Jim Crow. It is whites who must bow to the superiority of blacks on public transportation, and ride only in the assigned seats. It is whites who must put up with being called names, and dare not look the taunting people in the face, for fear of a beating.
You omitted some of the dialog in your transcript excerpts. Just before 2:07, EBM stepped off the bus, said "... hit me first, he hit me in the face! It's f'n self-defense! Don't f with me!" and was walking away from the bus.
Then the black dude while standing safely inside the bus said "Yeah, next time, I'll f you up!". Leaking black guy doesn't know when to give it up, is a glutton for punishment.
When it went viral on the Internet, people tracked down the black gal who stole EBM's grocery bag, and showed her name, address and pictures of her home in Oakland, challenging others to harass her for stealing the Epic Beard Guy's belongings. Isn't the Internet fun?