Hate invective by White woman |
An Indian American entrepreneur and his friends were subjected to hate-filled invective Feb. 3 evening in Seattle, Washington, while waiting in line to get a pizza. Aditya Sastry, founder and digital strategist at Inflect Solutions, was with his friend Joey Velez and Tom Krajnak in Seattle`s trendy Capitol Hill area. Sastry said the white woman began a racist, xenophobic rant followed by threats and assault. Sastry began secretly taping the racist rant, and later posted the video to Facebook. In the video, a white woman repeatedly asks Sastry: “Where are you from?”“You`re not white, b****, where are you from?”The woman proceeded to denigrate India as a terrorist country and called Sastry a “fu**ing terrorist.” At one point, she asked Sastry, who is shown remaining silent throughout the exchange, whether he was from Saudi Arabia. She then called him a “n**gah,” and clarified that she wasn`t calling him a “n**ger.” Seattle and its surrounding suburbs have seen many incidents of hate violence against Indian Americans. Last November, a Sikh American teenager was beaten up by a classmate who punched him and kicked him to the ground. In March, a Richland, Washington couple – who are also Sikh Americans – came home to a diaper on their doorstep with a note bearing the phrases: “you are under attack,” and “watch yourself.”
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