A Black woman drove three hours to make a racist commenter apologize under pain of her showing his wife his Grindr profile. Now she’s an absolute icon for every marginalized person who’s ever had to deal with hate from bigoted people online.
We can’t recommend this course of action due to the inherent risks, but the resulting video is a masterpiece.
Apologize or else, please
On Saturday, TikToker @darkred_photograp reposted a video by this modern hero, gaining over 1.5 million views in a couple days. The original account, @davillanumade, has been set to private.
The video shows the daring woman as she approaches the workplace of a man who left a racist comment on one of her posts. It’s unclear how she tracked him down, and the only identifying information she provides is the first name “Mike,” but she recognizes his car before knocking on the door.
Mike himself answers and soon finds himself in an awkward situation. The TikToker is cheerful and polite the whole way through.
“How you doing?” she asked. “So, a couple days ago, you left a comment under somebody’s comment section.”
Mike attempts to pretend like he doesn’t really remember, but when she reminds him what it was about, she appears to trigger his recall. According to The Root, it was regarding a “tight race” in the Tennessee District 7 election. Screenshots of Mike’s deleted comments used the N-word and accused Black folks of “constantly whining.”
“I don’t know you, but I was that person that you commented under!” the TikToker revealed. “Yeah, crazy, right? Crazy world!”
With a bright smile, she went on to point out how easy it was to find him and offer her ultimatum.
“I’m going to give you the opportunity to apologize, or I’m going to show your wife the Grindr account I found. How do you feel about that?”
Mike felt that he’d better do what she said. He read the simple apology that the TikToker wrote down for him, then she thanked him, said it was nice meeting him, and left.
@darkred_photograp The innanet is not real!😂
♬ original sound – darkred_photography
“She out here teaching real life lessons!”
Though some had concerns about what might have happened to this brave woman in light of recent deadly shootings, the overwhelming sentiment is that she is a legend, an icon, and the moment.
“Yoooooooo!!!!???? People are not PLAYING ON THIS APP,” @itsniquez declared in the TikTok comments.
“She out here teaching real life lessons!” said @thompsontracey1. “Take note all the Mike’s of the world you can be found.”
The footage soon spread over to X, where the remnants of Black Twitter ate it up.
“The Black woman who drove three hours to confront a man who left her a racist comment, and gave him the choice to read the apology she wrote or else she’d show his wife his Grindr account, is my hero,” wrote @sighahh.
“Quite frankly, although what she did was risky, this is how all racist people should be made to feel,” @ScionofCulture asserted. “They should never feel safe leaving racist comments unprovoked.”
“Every racist person should be made to feel genuine fear for their actions.”
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