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In reply to the discussion: Racially charged confrontation at Reno airport captured on video [View all]BumRushDaShow
(144,340 posts)[***"Learn how to fucking speak English," he shouts. "We live in America."
"But I'm speaking to my mother in Spanish because that's her language," replies the other man, Hector Torres, who recorded the video.
"I don't give a shit, shut up!" the man responds. "SHUT UP!"
Torres, a 44-year-old father of four from Orlando, Florida, told BuzzFeed News that the unnerving encounter began Thursday evening, as he was speaking on the phone to his mother while waiting to board a flight to Los Angeles. While on the call, Torres said, he heard someone behind him say, "Can you believe this shit?" "I'm chatting away with my mom, quietly, not trying to have all kinds of volume at the airport," Torres said. "And I'm like, I hope it wasn't directed at me."
Torres said he tried to ignore the comments, which were loud enough for most people at the terminal to hear. But when he heard the man say, over his shoulder, "Trump is going to fix this. He doesn't understand this is Trump's America now," he decided to get off the phone. "At that point, I hadn't turned around and I just told her, 'Mami, I have to handle this. I'll call you back,'" Torres said. "I can't let something like this just fly by."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/a-man-went-off-on-a-racist-tirade-because-a-guy-talked-to?utm_term=.mdaQ5y7dZ#.by5zqB0XP***]
No more backing away from racism and white privileged behavior out of idiots like this. Other passengers in the area attempted to calm Michael down and he started hurling epithets at them. Hector could have pressed charges because his video showed being assaulted and he chose not to.