Black Fisherman Repeatedly Confronted by White People for Using Lake in Video

Newsweek ^ | July 13, 2023 | KHALEDA RAHMAN 

[lowbridge]

A Black fisherman's TikTok videos showing white people repeatedly confronting him for being at a lake in his own neighborhood have gone viral.

The man, whose handle is "fishingbay2ga," posted a video on Wednesday with a caption explaining that "privileged" people in his "nice" neighborhood don't believe he lives there.

The video, which has racked up more than 5 million views, shows a white woman approaching him and a companion near the lake.

"Are you guys residents here?" she asks, later adding that the lake is for residents only.

After the woman says she does not give him permission to film, he replies: "This is my phone. I can film and do whatever I want. I study the law."

The fisherman then speaks to the camera, saying the woman was the third person who had approached him that day.

"I'm in my own neighborhood and a white person came and bothered me while I'm fishing," he says. "This is the third time."

When the woman starts walking away, he adds: "Don't leave now. Do you want to say hey, do you live here? Where you live? What's your address?"

The man shared another video a few hours later, which has so far amassed more than half a million views, where a white man appears to return for a second time to question the man and his companion about where they live.

"When I asked you earlier, you didn't say where do you live," the man says.

The fisherman's companion replies: "I was told not to talk to strangers who don't introduce themselves."

The man then tells them he is on the homeowner association board. "We pay for the lake," he adds. "It's a private lake so if you live in the neighborhood."

[Round Earther]

“Why would she be driving down that street and concerned about a stranger fishing somewhere she doesn’t belong?”

So, in your view, it would have been appropriate for the fisherman, to see the woman driving down the street, view her as a stranger, interrupt her and check to see if she belonged in the neighborhood?

If not, why not?

For some reason, neither she nor the fisherman would answer questions about where they lived, and that places them not simply similarly situated, but equally situated.

Neither the woman or the fisherman had any obligation to provide any information to the other.

Sure the woman can sue, she can take the stand in a civil trial but she will not win.

[Bikkuri]

😉

[Mears]

Thanks.

…..

[skr]

In an HOA community, HOA fees pay for stocking lakes with fish, so that fishing is available to the residents and their guests. If he wasn’t a resident, then he wasn’t supposed to be fishing there. If she wasn’t a resident but was walking in the neighborhood, she wasn’t potentially removing anything that was only meant for the residents.