Racism in Australia: Woman Subjects Schoolboy to Racial Abuse in Bus [VIDEO]
Another incident involving racism in Sydney was captured in video and posted in YouTube. In what seems to be a never-ending battle with racism, a 50-year-old woman harasses a schoolboy of Asian descent in a bus with verbal profanities. Both were passengers in a public bus and the video was taken by a fellow passenger who chose to be anonymous.
A Current Affair featured the video showing the woman swearing at a young boy wearing a school uniform. Footage at the start of the video shows the boy and his friend standing at the bus aisle in an effort to keep boxes of fragile equipment. The boxes were placed on the seats to keep them safe.
The woman seated near to aisle where the boys were standing became irritated. She said the young boys were blocking her view. She started cursing and gave racist remarks about the boys to "sit the f*** down" and to "go back on your f***ing boat and f*** off." The woman was laughing as she hurled these profanities.
When the school boy heard the woman, he told her to get off the bus. The passenger who took the video footage said the incident lasted for 12 minutes. Most of the passengers on the bus are Asian schoolchildren.
The male anonymous passenger said the children were affected by the woman's racial outbursts. The boy's reaction is normal as he tried to get someone older than him to stop talking and just get off the bus. The anonymous passenger decided to post the video on popular video-sharing site, Youtube, so that others, especially Australians, are aware of the widespread racism even on the public transportation system.
The racial attack happened inside an M41 route bus. The video also shows the woman claiming to be drunk and went on with her racist remarks. The driver of the bus tried to get involved and stop the woman from talking. The bus stopped several times as the driver scolded the woman, but she just wouldn't stop talking.
NSW State Transit Authority says that bus passengers should refrain from abusive and obscene language. The bus driver can stop the bus and ask the passenger to leave if the passenger does not stop this kind of behavior.