How does our country expect racial attack victims to react?

[SargeUNN]

I was looking at video of Packer's player Collins encounter and read he said the Bears fan used racial slurs at him. We have seen where politicians have had racial slurs used on them, and obviously this is likely going on with less visible accounts than we know. So with the rise of hate groups, and as some press the limits of the law and political speech it stands to reason the problem is going on more and more. Some have said that the victim, like Collins should have ignored that fan and moved on, but really what should he have done? His reaction was to throw his mouthpiece at the guy which would be considered over reacting to many and will probably get him fined or something, but really can you blame him if the event was as he declared.

I was watching on the DVD I got recently of Schindler's List the accounts of some of the Jews that Schindler saved and one or two described how they had to endure insults and those insults turned later to violence which they couldn't respond. I saw the same thing in Jim Crow Mississippi. So I ask this question because if we expect the victims to ignore it and not respond while the attackers are allowed to get away we are putting others in jeopardy to more attacks and possible worse attacks. So really what do we do and what should we expect from the ones being attacked?

[Enrique]

1. call the cops

stand there and keep an eye on the guy, point him out to everyone and make sure he doesn't get away until the cops come and arrest him.

[SargeUNN]

2. here is the problem with that

Take the Collins event, the fan was said to have been using racial slurs but appears that was all he was doing. Collins threw the mouthpiece. I would guess the police would say the fan was in his rights of freedom of speech and Collins was closer to violating the law by throwing an object, so it opens up a slippery slope. So calling the cops would probably be none productive and in the meanwhile those who want to act like this moron will be more likely to do so. That is the problem that these people are pressing the limits of free speech and opening up more serious situations and we are likely to be forced to have to make some very tough decisions on how to deal with it.