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BumRushDaShow

(129,084 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:27 AM May 2017

Shopper Berates Latina, Then Calls Black Woman N****r In Arkansas Walmart

[***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, “You’re in America,” “This is not your country,” and “We don’t 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.
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Shopper Berates Latina, Then Calls Black Woman N****r In Arkansas Walmart (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 2017 OP
I so want to be present if this ever occurs. Are_grits_groceries May 2017 #1
At least one of the store managers BumRushDaShow May 2017 #2
Notice the toilet paper? padah513 May 2017 #3
LOL BumRushDaShow May 2017 #4
You ryan_cats May 2017 #5
Perhaps she should just go live TrishaJ May 2017 #6
And then she lies about what happened, blaming the people she attacked. yardwork May 2017 #7
She expected BumRushDaShow May 2017 #8

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
1. I so want to be present if this ever occurs.
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:30 AM
May 2017

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)
2. At least one of the store managers
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:37 AM
May 2017

(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.

yardwork

(61,649 posts)
7. And then she lies about what happened, blaming the people she attacked.
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:52 AM
May 2017

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)
8. She expected
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:57 AM
May 2017

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.

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