A white woman from Kansas City, Missouri was fired after a viral video posted online Wednesday showed her going on a racist rant against two men of color. The incident took place outside of a bar in the Power & Light District.
21-year-old Drake Lewis, who appears to be black, uploaded the clip to his Twitter account. In the caption, he described what reportedly occurred.
His tweet read: “So yesterday me and my homie Sam were out taking photos in the power and light district via KCMO when we overheard this lady say “these fucking niggers” when we walked by. I told her not to say that and then I started recording.”
The woman has not been identified but her former employer, who wishes to remain anonymous, immediately recognized her after the clip started to gain traction in the media.
So yesterday me and my homie Sam were out taking photos in the power and light district via KCMO when we overheard this lady say “these fucking niggers” when we walked by. I told her not to say that and then I started recording pic.twitter.com/rvFHFIp3NY
— wesly ∞ (@DyslexicWes) October 17, 2018
The woman did admit that she was drunk and stated: “You’ll be all right, you’ll be all right, motherf–ker, you’ll be all right. It is what it is. I’m a white f–king cracker, you a caramel n—er. You’ll be all right, bitch. Get the f–k up outta here!”
At this point, Lewis and his Samoan-American friend started answering the woman. The young men used offensive terms like “hick,” “cracker” and an “ugly” to go after her.
She replied: “Yeah I’m drunk, f–k you. Fuck you and white horse you rode in on, bitch, with your orange and red shoes. Get the f–k out of my face!”
Lewis told a local media outlet although the incident left he and his pal outraged, it is not the first time something like that happened to them.
Nick Benjamin, executive director of the Power & Light District, put out a statement blasting the woman.
It read: “There is no place in our society for the kind of abhorrent speech that a visitor to downtown appears to have made on a public street in the video and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Some commenters have argued that Lewis and his friend should have refrained from calling the drunk woman some derogatory names.
