swagga

Did you laugh? I did, at first. Let's dissect why I found it funny.

A fight on public transportation in broad daylight. Both individuals are women: one of whom looking like my mother when she first came to this country and hardly able to speak a lick of English (save for the all important curse words, of course), the other a business ready black woman. Black woman instigates the fight. Asian mother wins it.

I don't know how I feel about this. Superficially yeah, it's hilarious.

It violates quite a number of the behaviors, impressions we expect to see from these 'types' in society:

• Two adults acting like children - we wouldn't expect adults to behave this way publicly
  
• Asian woman being aggressive - we wouldn't expect this old Chinese woman to hit back
  
• Black woman dressed properly - we wouldn't expect a black woman dressed the way she is to instigate a fight
  

Yeah, these can be denied, but I'm taking this from personal experience. That's not the point though.

In the end, it made me sad to see how people regressed to pounding each other with fists on a public bus. It made me sad that I found it funny at first. It also made me sad that race is clearly an issue here. Whether it actually was or not is irrelevant now; people are going to make it a race thing.