Drunk wypipo calls someone the N-word on a bus in Washington D.C.

[Charlotte Little]

45. I'll stick my nose in...

Hello, white woman here - one who is very outspoken against racism (also, ACLU member for 10 years). Yes, I feel the need to clarify given the way white folks are more publicly acting these days.

The white woman was clearly very inebriated on the bus (I'd argue that I'd rather she be on a bus than behind the steering wheel of a moving automobile). Can we assume that alcohol is the reason she acted that way? Nope. Is she a racist? Yup. Because no matter how drunk I've ever been in my life (and I've been shit-faced past incoherent), I've never called anyone the N-word. Even in high school in the south in the 80s, when a fellow black choir student knocked me upside the head and I hit her back, I did not call her that word, didn't even come to mind. (We were arguing over solos since both of us were sopranos, but ended up being friends and solo-partners the next year - had nothing to do with racial tensions. Yup, in the 80s, in the deep south - true story. But I digress!). I can't imagine ever saying those words to anyone as I know all to well, having grown up in the south, the hurt that word inflicts. And I'm not a racist asshole. My mother taught me how to be a good human, although Lord knows I've been an asshole in many other ways. With all of this said, it's hard for me to defend this woman who ultimately ended up beaten very badly.

But yet, here goes: she was exiting the bus, so someone (or many) must have followed her off of the bus and beat her. That, in any circumstance, is not okay. It's just not.

By the way, I love the video of Nazi, Richard Spencer, being punched in the face. So, I'm a hypocrite, I suppose. And no, it doesn't have to do with her being a woman. But it does have to do with the fact that she could have ended up dead.

Words are never worth a life, unless they are words inciting violence or death to others and self-defense is involved. This wasn't that situation. So, I just can't get agree with the outcome.