A man who said he was aboard the riverboat involved in the Saturday night brawl at Montgomery’s Riverfront Park that went viral called in to a radio show Monday, saying the incident “made me proud of Black people.”

The man, who did not give his name but identified himself as 67 years old, said the riverboat was hosting a class reunion from Robert C. Hatch High School in Uniontown and that the passengers were mostly football players.

He said he was on the riverboat when the Black dock worker was first attacked by a group of white people.

“I would’ve jumped in that water, too, because I can swim,” the man told “The Think Tank” with Chris Coleman on V 99.5 in Birmingham.

“I cried. I almost took off all my clothes right there on the boat” when the dock worker was attacked, the man said.

But the man said he was on the second deck of the riverboat, which was about 200 feet from the worker.

When the boat got closer to the fight, the man said, “it was on like popcorn,” but it was unclear whether he was involved in the scuffle.

“You know what it’s like to see somebody two feet away from you and you cant reach him? Listen, there’s no greater love than a man who gives his life for another man,” he told Coleman. “Everybody out there was willing to give their life for that man. It was no joke.”

While Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed told reporters Monday that police could not confirm or deny if the attack was racially motivated, the man who called in to Coleman’s show suggested he believed the brawl was fueled by race. No arrests have been made in the incident.

“They really thought they had that [white] privilege thing,” the man said of the white men who attacked the park worker before Black men from the riverboat came to the worker’s aid.

“But when they saw Black people strong like that, I think some of them messed in their pants,” the man said. “I was there, I seen it. I seen it, I cried.”

He said the incident “made me proud of Black people … that privilege thing is over with.”

Montgomery police are expected to hold a news conference on the brawl Tuesday.