The black woman caught in a now-viral video going on a rant against an Orthodox Jewish man aboard a packed city subway car after he called her racist has no regrets, except one: saying “f–k you” to him.
Brooklynite Shauntaye King told The Post in an exclusive interview Wednesday that the nearly two-minute clip which shows her beefing with the man, identified as 31-year-old Yossi Wolfe, doesn’t tell the whole story — but regardless, she stands by mostly everything she said.
King, 31, of East Flatbush, said the argument sparked during morning rush hour last week after a black woman, wearing what King believed was traditional Muslim dress, and her three young kids walked onto the packed No. 4 train at Utica Avenue — and no one got up to offer their seat.
“Every person on that train looked at that woman and didn’t even think to get up,” King recalled, adding that the train was filled with predominately black passengers, along with Wolfe, who was standing nearby.
“When I sat on the train for three minutes and watched how rude my people were to their own people, I said something about it,” said King, who is biracial and was born to a white mother.
She continued: “I said, ‘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.'”
King, a project manager for a construction company, says that comment prompted Wolfe 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 remembered.
At the start of the video, King can be heard yelling at Wolfe as they both stand on the moving train, shouting: “You said I’m racist so you tell me what I’m being racist towards … because you’re Jewish and I said if a Jewish family got on here, somebody would have got up. That is not a racist statement. That is a factual statement.”
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.”
In the clip — which was posted to Twitter by another subway rider — Wolfe, a Wall Street Journal software engineer, can be heard quietly telling King to “calm down.”
“No, I need to calm down now because I’m schooling your a–,” a visibly enraged King says in the video. “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 can be heard saying: “No, ‘you guys.’ I am a person. You are a person.”
King goes on to say: “No. We are different. Understand that. You know why? Because your people treat my people different in our community!”
“You treat us different in our community. You don’t even rent to us. What the f—k are you talking about?” she says.
During the subway encounter, King can be heard shouting over Wolfe, according to the video, saying, “You need to learn the difference between race … Judaism is not a race. It is a religion.”
King claimed to The Post 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 said.
King said the argument actually lasted for about seven minutes until she got off the Bronx-bound train, nearly in tears, at the Atlantic Avenue/Barclays Center station.
“I didn’t say anything that would be considered derogatory or hurtful,” claimed King, a married mother.
She added: “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.”
King did admit that before she got off the train, she directed her attention at Wolfe and said: “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 — and I said, ‘f—k you.’”
Thinking back, King said, “I guess I shouldn’t have said, ‘f—k you.’”
King said she believes her reaction on the train stemmed from Wolfe calling her “racist” mixed with the thought of the prevalence of police violence against black people in America.
“I know that man on that train could not tell me what I said derogatory about the Jewish religion,” King said.
She claimed that days earlier, her husband was detained for more than an hour by police in Pennsylvania after he pulled over for accidentally running a stop sign at night.
“He and his friend were detained for over an hour,” she said. “[The police] were making up stories, saying they smelled marijuana.” King said her husband and his friend were ultimately released — and her husband was only slapped with a ticket for passing through the stop sign — after a car search came up negative. Police did not immediately confirm her account.
“I understand the definition of racism,” King said. “You cannot be a racist if you don’t feel superior … I don’t know any black people who feel superior to the white race … my comments did not signal or identify any thoughts of superiority I may have.”
King said she has aspirations of becoming a lawyer and that her “dream” involves “civil rights work.”
“I’m not afraid to talk about these things,” said King, a St. John’s University graduate. “As a black mother, I have to teach my son how to behave in front of the police.”
“I feel as a black woman, every time I see a black man get shot, every time I see a black man getting harassed by the police, how I have to tell my son to behave if there’s authority in his presence — that hurts my heart.”
In an interview with Israeli media network Arutz Sheva, Wolfe — who could not immediately be reached by The Post — said he intervened after King made her comment about the subway seat and a Jewish family because he “wasn’t in the mood to let someone get away with saying something so anti-Semitic.”
“[T]o me it just seems like a no-brainer, when someone is attacking your people you have to do something about it,” Wolfe told the site.