Black TikToker records Verizon Wireless employee's unprompted rant about slavery

[Demovictory9]

In a TikTok posted on August 25, a Verizon Wireless employee talked at @uhdezuh, a Black customer, over the phone about slavery and human trafficking unprompted.

"If she didn't have my account right in front of her, I would have just hung up," wrote @uhdezuh in the overlay text on the video.

"Slaves have been around since Egypt's days, Mayan and Incan days," the employee tells @uhdezuh. "The Aztecs used to enslave the Mayans." She also tells @uhdezuh that the movie Taken is "more true than people realize."


"Girls are kidnapped to be sex slaves," the employee continues.

In a follow up video, @uhdezuh said that their call lasted approximately ten minutes. At the beginning of their conversation, @uhdezuh told the employee she "liked her name," which launched the employee into a long explanation of where her name came from.

Because the employee's mother chose her name, the employee then told @uhdezuh of her mother's extensive collection of Disney movies. The mother was unable to acquire one Disney movie because "Disney stopped releasing it because it was racist."

@uhdezuh told the Daily Dot in a TikTok direct message that the movie she was referring to was Song of the South.

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[tanyev]

1. Why is a Verizon employee talking to a customer about anything other than the customer's questions?

Soon to be a former Verizon employee, I predict.

[Renew Deal]

2. I wonder if the person recording the conversation needed consent to do so.

And if she had it.

[harumph]

3. From reading this - it seems like maybe the employee

has some social integration issues (autism spectrum?). I haven't heard the video, but although what the
employee did was inappropriate, it does not seem malicious, and to me this seems like a "gotcha" piece.

[PatSeg]

4. Yes, I agree

I've known people like that. They just go off on a tangent, often unable to stop themselves. From what I read, it did not sound malicious or racist, more like annoying and inappropriate.