Yeah. . .it’s his fault. He deserved it.
Race has nothing to do with it.
\sarc (do I have to?)
Certainly it was all about race, but to the point where the guys who got thumped either didn’t consider that race was a problem, or that they were too important to get thumped.
Seriously, if a white person enters a black bar in a bad mood, do they turn around and walk right out, or do they get in an argument?
This is a common sense thing.