King and Wolfe argue
Black woman doesn't regret yelling at Jewish man on NY Subway
A video of Shauntaye King curse Yossi Wolfe on the No.4 Subway train went viral, but other than telling him 'f**k you,' she tells the New York Post she won't take anything back.
A black woman who was filmed yelling and cursing at an Orthodox Jew on the New York Subway told the New York Post
on Thursday that she does not wish to take back any of the things she said, apart from telling him "f**k you."
Shauntaye King told the Post that the video, which is less than 2 minutes long, documents only part of the 7 minute confrontation between her and Yossi Wolfe and fails to tell the whole story.
The 31-year-old King, from East Flatbush in Brooklyn, said the argument was sparked during morning rush hour last week after another black woman wearing a traditional Muslim dress got onto the packed No. 4 train with her three children.
"Every person on that train looked at that woman and didn't even think to get up," King said, noting most of the other travelers on the train were black men.
She decided to tell the passengers off for not offering their seat to the woman, telling them "You guys are a bunch of a**holes for not getting up for this woman, and if a Jewish family came on this train with their carriage and their children, I can guarantee some of you would have gotten up for them."
This, she said, prompted Wolfe, who was also on the train, to call her racist. "He just kept calling me a racist, kept telling me I'm anti-Semitic, and I told him I have a white mother," she told the Post.
"I asked him, 'What if I were to say Mexican, would you call me a racist then?' If I said anything else, that man would not say I'm a racist—it's because I used the term Jewish that he had a problem," King asserted.
The 31-year-old Wolfe, a Wall Street Journal software engineer, can be heard in a video of the incident telling King to calm down, but to no avail.
King yelling at Wolfe
An enraged King is then heard telling him, "No, I need to calm down now because I'm schooling your a**. You guys think you're so f**king smart, but guess what? I'm gonna teach you a lesson on this f**king train today."
Wolfe is heard responding, "No, 'you guys.' I am a person. You are a person."
To which King answers, "No. We are different. Understand that. You know why? Because your people treat my people different in our community! You don't even rent to us. What the f**k are you talking about?"
King can also be heard shouting over Wolfe, telling him, "You need to learn the difference between race ... Judaism is not a race. It is a religion."
To the New York Post, King explained that Wolfe "verbalized that black people were not treated unfairly in this country, and that really set me off. His exact words were 'black people don't get treated differently than Jews.'"
She insisted that she "didn't say anything that would be considered derogatory or hurtful. My point in saying everything I said was not to say Jews don't get treated bad sometimes, but the majority of the Jewish race is white and they don't walk the streets we walk in. They don't have to worry about if they're gonna get rented to. They don't have to worry about getting welfare."
Before getting off the train, King turned to Wolfe and added "You'll never know what it's like if the police come in contact with your kid or your husband and if they're ever gonna make it home. F**k you!"
To the Post she said later, "I guess I shouldn't have said, 'f**k you.'"
