A Black TikToker and fisherman recently went viral after recording an interaction between himself and a white female resident who questioned whether he was allowed to fish in a pond in the neighborhood he lives in.
The man goes by @fishingbay2ga on TikTok, and he only posts videos of his fishing adventures. The Facebook link posted to his TikTok account says his location is in Columbus, Georgia.
The video is captioned, “Black man fishing problems!”
The video shows a white woman getting out of her car and approaching the fisherman to ask if he was a resident of the neighborhood.
“Are you guys residents here?” the woman asks.
“Are we bothering anyone?” was the response from a female voice off-camera.
The white woman then proceeds to tell him that the pond is reserved for “residents only,”
and she didn’t give him permission to film.
“So y’all hear what I go through, right?” the fisherman says to his camera. “This the third person. … I’m in my own neighborhood, and a white person came and bothered me while I’m fishing.”
He turned the camera to show the woman walking back to her car but responded to her filming comments.
“This is my phone. I can film and do whatever I want. I study the law.” he adds.
The fisherman also posted a second video of a white male approaching him while fishing in the same pond.
Social media users immediately came to the defense of the Black man in both videos.
“Black man live in the neighborhood. Fishing in a public spot. Not 1, or 2 white folks harassing but 3 approach the man. Telling him not to fish What’s new? The s**t predictable,” wrote one user.
Another user wrote on Twitter, “Black man can’t even…
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