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[–]MythOfPrivilege 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Also, 1) smart phones with cameras hadn't completely saturated the world yet, 2) and people didn't yet have the reflex ingrained in them to immediately whip out their phone and start recording at the first sign of a disturbance.

[–]negrogreBeing black is anti-white 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Imagine if this video was put on social media today.

The video would start with Epic Beard Man beating down on his attacker and cut right before he stops, then headlined with "Racist white attacks Black man on bus" or something like that.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Beard man would have lost his job (if not retired) and would be pleading guilty to avoid hard time for his racially motivated hate crime.