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[***A Walmart in Centeron, Arkansas, is working to identify and ban a shopper after video of the shopper racially abusing two women went viral, NBC reports. A woman who identifies as Eva Hicks, a Latina, shared a video of the confrontation on Facebook Tuesday, which shows a white woman in a teal shirt yelling at her to go back to Mexico.
When a black woman attempts to intervene, the woman with the cart begins hurling racial insults at her too.
I never in my life thought this would happen to me, Hicks wrote of the experience on Facebook. Just on a simple trip to the grocery store after a hard day of work. I love this country and I will stay in this country.
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Hicks explains to the woman that she said excuse me because she was trying to reach medicine that was on a shelf located behind the woman and her cart. The woman continues to yell xenophobic insults at Hicks, telling her, Youre in America, This is not your country, and We dont want you here!
When the other shopper tells the woman to stop being ignorant, the white woman replies, A n****r is calling me ignorant? Yes, the black woman responds. All this go back to Mexico and all that stuff, yes, absolutely.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arkansas-walmart-woman-racist-rant-against-latina_us_5924fdfee4b00c8df29ff352 ***]
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Drumpf has emboldened these people. This idiotic "go back to... <fill in the blank>" thing that racist whites spout is hilarious given most of the people they yell this to have families who were here well before any of their families got off the damn boat.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Now I wish they never happened. However, if some cretin starts I want to be there to defend those who are attacked.
BumRushDaShow
(129,084 posts)(according to the article) was calmly attempting to resolve the situation and she pretty much kept pleading to him that she was not at fault, despite her shoving her cart at people and hurling expletives.
This is being discussed on Joe Madison's show this morning.
padah513
(2,503 posts)A big pack of Quilted Northern because she's full of s**t!
BumRushDaShow
(129,084 posts)ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)You meet the nicest people in a Walmart.
TrishaJ
(798 posts)in Russia.
yardwork
(61,649 posts)I'm so glad that this is being exposed through cell phone recordings. I hope that racists start thinking twice about their vile behavior.
BumRushDaShow
(129,084 posts)the (apparently white) manager to believe HER and not the "non-American" and "n***er".... sortof like a wink wink thing. The manager appeared to be a younger guy and was thankfully sensitized.