What people don’t see is other blacks that would stand up to this bully, and that is what he is, essentially, but they stand there and say nothing while this guy rants and raves in their faces, merely inches away. Where are they?..................
In a tense situation like that, everyone except the big mouth racist is thinking of one thing: “What do I have to lose by engaging or confronting this guy right now?”
That includes the main target of this hatred, the white man sitting there with his frightened son. He too is likely to be thinking “This idiot Thug in front of me has nothing to lose, he may even be trying to provoke a fight so to build up street cred. and be part of a gang. A ‘show’ or performance for his fellow idiot Peeps. It won’t last long.
The father stands to lose everything, his son, his wife or himself could end up struck or stabbed or even shot. All over nothing.
The father has to deal with the temporary shame of not getting up and demolishing this fool in front of him, because the verbal abuse is not likely to last for very long. His son may not understand quite yet, why there was no confrontation. Why his dad did not ‘make’ that guy leave them alone? Explain the facts of race relations to him later.
If this white man had stood up and said something, he would have been atatcked, along with his family, by the other blacks on the train. The black man knew his back was covered, so he went on his rant.
He would have never done this if the train had been filled the other way.