If it's real, it's not a crime, but it certainly would qualify as racist. That's bad enough.
There are plenty of real incidents like this that I remember seeing with my own eyes in my youth, which didn't make national news back then.
Whenever it happens for real (and it does) on any side of the racial divide, it's a terrible thing.
To quote a line from an old punk song:
"Racism sucks. Racism sucks. Racism sucks. Racism sucks. Racism sucks. Racism sucks. Racism f-----g sucks."
7 Seconds "Racism Sucks": Music - Lyrics
The fact the blacks are more commonly racist nowadays than whites certainly doesn't change the observation that bigots of all colors are a weak and dwindling minority.
Indeed, most Americans of all races have long since put behind them the idiocy of racism and bigotry in all of its forms. The vast majority of Americans (the ones we don't see on the news, but who we interact with every day) simply want to live and let live.
I'm happy to say that I experience overwhelming evidence of Americans' inherent goodness every single day, from every race, religion, culture, and economic strata.
And that reality is what makes the race-hustlers and the bigoted fringe look so foolish and misguided to the vast majority of us.
Agreed. This incident establishes the existence of at least one bigot. I hope they find out who it is, and I don’t much care what color they are.
Racism is a fact of life. It’s simply a reflection of the fact that we prefer the company of people who share our values. Even if humans mixed to the point where we were all the same color, we’d divide among other lines (religion, class, etc.) That’s just life.