A Georgia man was left bloodied and bruised after he was brutally attacked for dating an African-American girl.
The interracial couple were strolling through Ellis Square, a public space in Savannah, shortly before midnight last Friday, when they say three black men began taunting them. The provocation began as racial slurs, then the scoffers started blowing kisses and suddenly the trio jumped the boyfriend, Andrew Quade - who is white, beating him and leaving him barely conscious.
The couple say they were simply minding their own business as they walked through the Savannah spot, one of the busiest squares in the historic downtown, known for being the epitome of Southern charm. Then the group targeted the couple. 'One of them was making racial comments at us and one of the them was blowing kisses. It was a very aggravating situation to be in,' Bakre explained.
Quade, 23, said he tried to stay calm and just keep moving when the insults began. 'I didn't want to like freak out on them,' he told the local news station.'I was trying to gain a little more knowledge about the situation and before we could even do that, it was just bam bam.' He said everything happened so quickly when the gang attacked him, that he doesn't even have a clear picture in his mind of the fight.
The next thing he remembered was waking up in an ambulance. 'He was basically left for dead,' Bakre said of the terrifying ordeal. 'I was trying to pry them off and before I knew it he was on the floor. It happened all so quickly,' she added. Bakre insisted that the couple did nothing to provoke the brawl and is confident that the pair's racial difference is what motivated the confrontation.
The violent response to the mixed-race romance has left the couple in shock that such vicious intolerance still exists. 'This shouldn't happen in this day in age. I know we're in the South and all that, but it's time for a change,' the girlfriend, Olufisayo Bakre, told WTOC-TV news.
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