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The video starts in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in front of a pharmacy on Ralph Avenue. A Black man and a white woman are arguing about a boy riding his bike. The boy rode too close to the woman for her liking, and she cursed him out.
“You’re defending yourself from an 8-year-old kid?” the man asks the woman, which she affirms.
“Where do you get this barbaric information from, that you can come to my community and talk to our kids like that?” the man asks.
The man then asks the woman where the kids in her community ride bikes and informs her that this area is these kids’ playground.
“You’re implying that I’m not part of the community,” she replies.
“Yes,” he retorts. “Y’all came here on gentrification. This is where we were born and raised all our life. This is our backyard. We don’t have backyards.”