We are always taught to help your neighbor, but who knew lending a hand could end with a middle finger to the face? That’s exactly what happened when a Black man stepped in to save a white driver from a dangerous accident. But instead of saying “thank you,” what the white man did next will leave you speechless.
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According to WITN, a water main broke in Greenville, South Carolina, creating a massive sinkhole in the road. When a Black man noticed the hazardous area, he and another resident, Vanilla Adams, tried to flag down a white driver to warn him. But instead of heeding the warning, the white driver flipped them off and kept going.
“I’m trying to stop you, boss man!” the Black man can be heard shouting in a now-viral video, moments before the driver went right into the sinkhole. “I tried to stop him. I tried to stop him,” he repeated.
Adams, who witnessed the incident, told WITN: “We waved him down and tried to prevent him from turning down this way. But you know, he stuck his middle finger up and kept going. After he kept going, the car sunk in. So that’s how he got stuck.” The driver made it out of the car safely, but what he said after left everyone in total shock.
“I don’t want to be rude or anything else, but when a fella of your color jumps out in front of me and starts waving at my truck…” the man began saying in the video in an attempt to justify why he ignored the Good Samaritan’s warning. In complete disbelief, the man who filmed the incident walked up the street, recounting his racist encounter: “I tried to stop this man right here from going down the road, and he gave me the middle finger – and look what happened. I tried to stop him and look what the f**k happened.”
Comments quickly poured in under the viral video, calling out what viewers called racist behavior from the white driver. “He got what he deserved,” one Instagram user wrote. “And stop calling people BOSS man, that you don’t work for– giving them power over you.” A TikTok user posted, “Clown. That fool said when a fella of your color…that couldn’t have happened to a better person! Clown a**!”
The conversation didn’t stop there. Social media users also raised more profound questions about what it means to be a Good Samaritan and whether common decency still exists. “At some point, I hope they’ll realize every black person is not their enemy and genuinely have good intentions towards them,” one Facebook user wrote. “I bet people miss out on blessings stuck in that mindset.”
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