Don’t. Poke. The. Bear.
Was the tirade unprovoked?
Violence isn’t the answer to verbal abuse, but you can even take the N word out of this and still see how this is sort of like social darwin award winner.
What right minded person things they could verbally attack someone and not potentially get a physical reaction to it?
If I dared you to go and start yelling at someone in a store, what would your first reaction be? You’d ask if I was going to back you up if things got violent, wouldn’t you?
You are authorizing every black man and child to use violence when heated words are exchanged. Is that your goal here? Do you know how this started?