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https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-orange-county-mom-records-racist-rant-video-irvine-covid-19-coronavirus/2495358/Police are investigating a verbal and racial attack that was caught on video at a popular Orange County shopping plaza, and the woman in the video believes she was targeted because she asked a man to keep his social distance.
The 30-year-old Irvine mom says shes actually not surprised this happened to her. She says she has seen so many other incidents of Asians being unfairly targeted since the start of the pandemic that she anticipated it could happen to her one day. And that's why, she says, shes speaking out.
"Im kind of emotionally prepared for this kind of situation," Hanna Li said.
Late Sunday morning, Li found herself on the receiving end of racist abuse, so she began recording.
Li says the man in the gray jeep told her to go back to China, with the video catching the end of that exchange. But the man can be heard calling her a racial slur.
Cirque du So-What
(25,811 posts)is his deliberate advance on the woman, ordering her to get in her car. Its not hard to imagine what would happened if she stayed outside her car, and I dont believe he would have merely opened her car door politely.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,811 posts)I hope his comeuppance is nigh.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Fuck the racists. The USA is a melting pot of cultures and races and is better for it.
People are blending as they marry and reproduce children with mixed heritages. Great!
Racism is quite possibly the stupidest, lowest form of discrimination. (along with sexism)
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)For her to go back to China. She was born in New York.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I am a light skinned black woman who can pass for white. I have actually seen someone realize what I am and change their attitude towards and become dismissive of me when they werent before. And its people who are on a lower socio economic level than me who are the worst.