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Video of a Black Man Walking a White Woman on a Leash Sparks Intense Debate on Race and BDSM

Some believe it was a consensual stunt while others made racist assumptions.

A viral video of what looks to be a boyfriend leading around his muzzled girlfriend on a leash has resulted in an extremely divisive online debate. 

  • In the clip, a white woman in heels and a dress is led around a grocery story by a man who happens to be Black. The unknown couple was taped by an anonymous shopper who called the incident “humiliating” at one point. 

  • The video was shared on YouTube, where it received many different responses, from people who believed it was a prank because neither of them had a shopping cart or basket to some calling it a BDSM fetish. Some even made the assumption that he was a pimp parading her around to be embarrassed. 

  • The clip first received many race-centered comments from people who assumed this man was a pimp and the woman was a victim

  • Those familiar with dominant and submissive dynamics in the BDSM world quickly suggested this video was nothing more than two people getting off on a fetish

  • While others believed it was a prank video made to get the very reactions it received

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