I definitely think people are jumping the gun. We need to remember that Rosa Parks was not the first black women not to give up her seat. That was a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who had gotten pregnant, and would have made the movement look bad due to the mores of the day (and even of today, to some extent) You have to be strategic with your rhetoric.
While there’s nothing wrong with conjecturing that this may have had a racial motivation, I think people need to hold back on using it as evidence directly of such in the discourse. There are plenty of other examples they could cite instead.
In fact, wasn’t there another incident elsewhere that started the whole concept trending? I seem to remember the hashtags starting before the 16th.
Note, this also means I think the discourse should happen. Just not saying for sure that this particular incident was racially motivated. That’s an easy target for those types of right wingers who would try and discredit the whole thing.
Edit: and I just used “try and” naturally, without thinking about it.