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Originally posted by Pimpish
That has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. That's what he gets for swinging on an old man. He got what he deserved. The guy should have just stuck with his big mouth and he wouldn't have gotten bloodied up. He doesn't even stop talking trash after he gets his butt handed to him, because he sees the old man safely off the bus, he feels safe enough to tell him hes going to # him up. At the end he is saying he's going to kill that old man.
Come to think of it, it's just as sad as it is funny. So many stupid people in the world.
Originally posted by ImaNutter
Originally posted by intrepid
Did you miss the fact the younger black guy said something to EBG first? Logic my friend. It's all on the tape. You just have to listen to then tape and take your bias out of it. EBG wasn't the instigator.
WHY AREN'T PEOPLE READING THE TRANSCRIPTS!!!!?
The idea that this old guy went to the back of the bus and picked this guy out to ask him to spit shine his shoes is bullcrap and its on the same level of misinterpretation as all the racist black hating!
It is what it is folks, two immature adults got into it, one won and the other lost.
[edit on 17-2-2010 by ImaNutter]
Originally posted by Xtraeme
Originally posted by downisreallyup
It seems that at this point the white guy got up from his seat in the front and came back to sit with the "black folks." Somehow the conversation went to a topic dealing with "transit" or perhaps the "transit system." This is where we pick up the story...
He got up from his seat in the front and came to the back? How'd you get that? Look at the underlined sections below ...
Starting at about 0:07,
EBM: How much you charge me for my Stacy Adams? I'm going to a funeral on Friday. I got a ...
Amba Lamps: Whaaa?
EBM: You said ...
Amba Lamps: Did you hear what I said right now?
EBM: Yes? ...
Amba Lamps: Why a brotha gotta spit shine yo shoes?!
EBM: YOU OFFERED!
Amba Lamps: I didn't offer you SH**.
EBM: What did you just say when you walked by me?
Amba Lamps: I said why ... why a fu**** brother gotta spit shine yo shoes!
EBM: Nah, he don't have to!
Amba Lamps: Why a white man can't shine yo shoes?
EBM: It could be a china-man it don't matter!
Amba Lamps: Look dude ... look ...
EBM: I ain't prejudiced ... What you think I'm prejudiced?
Amba Lamps: *points towards the front of the bus* Take yo ass back up there and get da fu** out oh my face right now.
EBM: Why you being so hostile man?
Amba Lamps: Cause um pissed off.
As for the rest of your comment,
After watching the video a couple times I can safely say that the black guy was taunted by the white guy and lured into the situation.
Apparently, when the black guy walked past the white guy he muttered something about spit-shining shoes. One can only surmise that he saw a black guy on the street doing shoes and felt the frustration of always seeing the black man shining the white guy's shoes.
EBM was confused and defended himself, hell he went back to the front of the bus. It was only Amba-Lamps who kept getting up to go and further antagonize EBM.
[edit on 17-2-2010 by Xtraeme]
Originally posted by vor78
reply to post by downisreallyup
Your 'analysis' is irrelevant. Both guys had opportunities to just back down and leave well enough alone. Neither one did, although its notable that the old man was not the one who initiated the physical confrontation. This is a perfect example of how 99.9% of all fights start, with two people too stubborn to just let it go. There was no 'victim' here.
Originally posted by Sozen94
It's highly unlikely that EGB did start the argument and fight. You don't see many 60+ year olds starting fights with young 'gangster' type people very often. Especially if they have a load of friends with them, even if they are girls.
If he did start it, why did he walk away? If he wanted something out of it he wouldn't just back off.
If that black guy is sad enough to even assualt the old man, then he really does deserve what he gets.
If the old man started on me i'd just ignore him and tell him to F**K off or something. I wouldn't go over and smack him.
Originally posted by Wolf
It just reminds me, what the system is doing to the human race!...I pity those laughing at this!
Originally posted by downisreallyup
Inciting to violence is a crime, and if it can be shown that a first punch was greatly provoked by verbal taunting, no charge of battery will occur.
Originally posted by downisreallyup
Originally posted by ImaNutter
Originally posted by intrepid
Did you miss the fact the younger black guy said something to EBG first? Logic my friend. It's all on the tape. You just have to listen to then tape and take your bias out of it. EBG wasn't the instigator.
WHY AREN'T PEOPLE READING THE TRANSCRIPTS!!!!?
The idea that this old guy went to the back of the bus and picked this guy out to ask him to spit shine his shoes is bullcrap and its on the same level of misinterpretation as all the racist black hating!
It is what it is folks, two immature adults got into it, one won and the other lost.
[edit on 17-2-2010 by ImaNutter]
The WG says the BG offered something, but the BG denies it. You assume that the WG was not making that up or twisting the BG's words because you are clearly biased to believing what a WG says. Well, I happen to believe the BG when he says "I didn't offer you sh**"
When listening to the ENTIRE conversation and trying to imagine what the events were that preceded the recorded events, this is what I think is far more believable:
1) Both BG and WG got on the bus at the same time. While at the bus station, the WG asked another BG to spit-shine his shoes, and the BG we see on the bus heard him say that and felt the racist tension arise.
2) Both men get on the bus, the WG sitting in the front, and the BG going to the back. As the BG passes the WG, he mutters under his breath "why does a brotha gotta spit-shine yo shoes?"
3) The WG hears this and gets up to go back and confront the BG. For him to ask any BG to spit-shine his shoes is a degrading thing to do, and yet he boldly marches back to do it.
4) Before we actually hear what they say the conversation centered around the transit system, and clearly the BG was not talking in an offended tone. He was genuinely trying to express some thoughts about "transit" to the WG. The WG didn't want to hear none of that, and said "Let's back to business." We have to ask... what business was he talking about? The business of getting a chance to pummel some BG?
So, no, you have not correctly understood the TRUE dynamics of what was going on there.
[edit on 17-2-2010 by downisreallyup]
I want to sit down and have a beer with this guy!!!!
Was this hysterically funny? Yes!!!
Is 99.9% of what is written in response on her youtube page necessary? NO!
A lot of the comments in this thread turned ugly and when I look at this and the comments on the youtube page, I can't help but think Amba Lampz, EBG, and bag thief have inadvertently set us back about 40 years as far as racial progress goes
It's funny because a younger person picked a fight with an old person and got their teeth knocked in... and okay amba lampz had me in stitches too (but to be fair it's not easy to enunciate with a busted mouth)
If a young white skater dude picked a fight with an elderly black man, and the black man defended himself like EBG did.. it would be equally as funnnyyyyyyyyyyyy.
The younger guy took a swing at the wroooong guy.. that's it that's all... it's funny when ANYONE underestimates who they're swinging on! I know you guys out there have seen these instances in real life... someone throws a weak jab, doesn't phase the opponent, and then the attacker is swiftly dropped in one punch and out cold for the next 5 minutes. Usually happens about 3/4th the way through a party when people are completely sloshed. Asshats getting dropped are funny, its okay to laugh!
But it's not okay to undo ~40 years of progress!!!
Originally posted by Wolf
How did this esculate...?
It just reminds me, what the system is doing to the human race!
I pity those laughing at this!
My father-in-law is 89 and and survivor of "Heartbreak Ridge" and one night he went to the local 7-11 and was accosted in the parking lot before he could enter the store. Just as the offender demanded his wallet and grabbed his jacket, he pulled out his .38 auto. End of discussion. Elbows and a**holes headed in the other direction. I'm only 62, and a Vet, and I wouldn't mess with him. He has "cajones de oro". As I said, the meek will not inherit the Earth. My father-in-law is living proof!!