Mike Partyka (@MichaelJPartyka)

This is enraging. A Spanish tourist in Japan says "mi amiga" -- "my friend" -- in the hearing of a black American tourist and is threatened with violence over it because the black American mishears the word and can't get over his baggage long enough to understand what really happened. It's like Emmett Till whistling at a white woman, with the colors reversed. Someone should've taken this video to the nearest Japanese police officer and had the black American subjected to whatever laws Japan has against assault, which is what this was, both physically and verbally. And all people everywhere need to understand that hearing words or whistles you don't like -- especially if your not liking it is governed by the emitter's race relative to yours -- is no excuse for violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27vJMQmqpmE&pp=0gcJCcMKAYcqIYzv #Race #Language #Culture #Violence #Civilization #Words