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WATCH: Brooklyn Actor Calls Out Racist Lady on Bus

Actual quote from bus lady: "He's inferior because he's black."

Screenshot via Moise Morancy/Facebook

“You’re going to go all over the internet, sweetheart,” black Brooklyn actor and activist Moise Morancy, 20, of Canarsie, warned a white lady who went on a racist rant on the B49 bus from Manhattan Beach to Bed-Stuy last Thursday morning.

He kept his promise.

Morancy’s video of the rant has since been viewed more than half a million times between Facebook and YouTube. And his story’s been picked up by BET, Vibe and Hip-Hop Wired.

Among the most ridiculous remarks he caught bus lady spewing on camera:

  • “F*** you, ugly black man!”
  • “He’s inferior because he’s black.”
  • “If you were in college, sweetheart, you would be more presentable.”
  • “I have nice hair. At least I have hair to fix.”

Watch the full video below.


And here’s the backstory, as told by Morancy on his Facebook page.

“So this morning, I get on a crowded bus on my way to school & this white woman is bugging out, yelling and being extremely rude, mainly because people were standing near the back door. So this brilliant black girl kindly says to her “Ma’am, there’s no room on this bus. There’s a stroller and it’s extremely crowded, where are people supposed to stand?” Immediately the woman snapped saying all kinds of rude things! No, I don’t know this black girl from a hole in the wall, but I don’t care. You ain’t gonna talk to my sista like that. So I call out that woman’s racist remarks as well as her white privilege; because she thinks she can speak to whoever she wants to in whichever manner she feels. All hell breaks loose as we see her true perspective of not only us as black people but our traits and occupations.....what do you think? Was I wrong for stepping in?“


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