‘He Was Pushing for a Reaction’: TikTok Explodes as Black Woman Stands Firm Against Shockingly Racist Attack by White Man

Imagine sitting at a bus stop, minding your own business, when a stranger begins attacking your ancestral homeland. Most people would respond with a straightforward “f*** you!” Some might try to ignore him. But TikTok user @selam_lethiopia, faced with a passive-aggressive man on a British bus, decided on a different approach, responding with a warm smile and droll sarcasm that eventually flummoxed the condescending stranger. Selam Amare was approached by a man at a bus stop who made racist remarks about Ethiopia. (Photo; TikTok/@selam_lethiopia) “You might be one of the little babies that I gave water to,” the man tells her, noting her Ethiopian roots. “I wasn’t around in the 80s,” she replies. The man, who says he was dispatched to Ethiopia as a solider, tells her, “Ethiopia was a sh-t place to be then.” He follows that up with a joke he acknowledges is “very derogatory,” something about the only thing faster than a chicken is an Ethiopian chasing a chicken. (Nothing like a little famine humor.) @selam_lethiopia replies, “Oh, ’cause they’re really fast in the Olympics. They always beat Team GB (Great Britain).” “Yeah, they’re professional athletes,” she adds. Perhaps realizing he’s dug himself into a hole, the...