Chicago residents know that anything can happen on any given day. Case in point, a recent bus ride spiraled into full-blown chaos when an Illinois woman let loose a racist tirade that left passengers stunned and TikTok viewers shaking their heads.
The incident was captured and shared by the account @JayAslan, giving social media a front-row view of this woman’s meltdown. The video reveals the true feelings of the Illinois white woman as she screams racist remarks about slavery to a bus full of people, most of whom are non-white.
From the very start of the TikTok, the confrontation is already underway. No one really knows what set the woman off, but whatever it was, she went from zero to sixty in record time. She screamed right into the phone of the person recording, her anger boiling over in a way that had everyone’s attention. But then, instead of just being an everyday angry commuter, she crossed a line into something much darker.
Illinois Woman Screams Racist Remarks About Slavery On Public Bus
In the video, the woman can be heard yelling, “The whites get nothing.” If that wasn’t shocking enough, she doubled down and targeted another passenger, adding, “This is why you guys went into slavery.” That’s the moment when the bus shifted from tense to downright hostile. Other passengers, clearly fed up, tried to shut her down. Someone even told her flat-out to “shut up,” but she wasn’t backing down.
As her rant continued, she bizarrely claimed that Black people were placed into slavery because “They owed so much money.” It’s the kind of statement that makes you wonder how she stitched together that twisted logic in the first place. And while the rest of the bus collectively groaned, she just kept escalating, dragging nearly every passenger into a shouting match filled with profanity and more hateful remarks.
If you’ve ever seen one of these “public freakout” videos, you know how they go, people try to intervene, voices get louder, and eventually the spectacle burns itself out. That’s exactly what happened here. After throwing out her insults, fending off clapbacks from other riders, and making vague accusations about her family, the woman finally announced she was leaving.
TikTok Can’t Believe It
And when she did? The tension broke. Laughter rippled through the bus as she stepped off, with the person filming cracking the final word: “Just another day in Chicago.”
“And they say Chicago isn’t safe. This woman was too safe. She. Felt. So. Safe.” one person commented. “Trump come get your girl,” another joked. “Nobody hit her?” a third person asked. “Oh she is in the wrong city to be saying all that,” a fourth person chimed in.
At the end of the day, public transportation will always test people’s patience. But there’s a big difference between being annoyed at a late bus and deciding to launch into a racist tirade for the world to see. Chicago, Illinois, deserves better than moments like this. Hopefully, the next viral bus video is about something a little more positive.
Hunter Spears 
Kenna Raye 
