Black man harassed for not covering his face

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

On the evening of March 9, a man and woman riding a Miami-Dade Transit bus were having a conversation without wearing masks.

That made Lai, a Miami resident of Chinese descent, uncomfortable. She waited several minutes, not wanting to interrupt their conversation. Then she asked them politely to please cover their faces. The woman, who had a bandanna around her neck, refused and said she couldn't breathe with a mask on.

The two conversing passengers, a white woman and a Black man, still refused to put their masks on. So Lai, who asked New Times that only her first name be published because she fears the recent wave of anti-Asian sentiment, asked the driver to enforce the rule. That's when things took a turn.

"The man started calling me a 'chink' and a 'gook' and all these racial slurs that I haven't heard in a very long time", she says.

Lai told him, "Maybe you don't need to be racist to me".

"I don't give a fuck what you saying, man", he responded. "I got daughters older than you. Mind yo' goddamn business, Chinese lady. Ugly-ass chink. Mind yo' goddamn business, man".

The exchange grew heated, and the man continued calling Lai names.

"I don't care about you peoples, man. Go to hell, dog. This America, Jap", he continued.

When Lai responded that she is American, the man continued to berate her and gave the camera a middle finger.

"Smile for the camera", he said. "Smile for this chink".

The insults continued. Before getting off the bus, he told her: "Fuck your culture".

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Black man harassed for not covering his face

Some racial slurs were heard during the exchange