She was 'white and hot' in a racist video. Now she's viral and unemployed.
The black women waiting for AAA said they could smell the alcohol on the breath of Susan Westwood, the slurring, unsteady white woman who had approached them in a dark parking lot in Charlotte. But Westwood had no trouble conveying a racially-tinged message straight out of the Jim Crow era.
She is white, she told the two black women, and a resident of the apartment complex in one of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods where they happened to be standing. She makes $125,000 a year and pays hefty rent, and her children attend Myers Park High School.
“This is Myers Park. What are you doing hanging out here on a Friday night?” she asked. “I am white and hot. So what are you doing here?’”
Mary Garris’s night had started to sour even before Westwood sauntered up. She was visiting her sister, Leisa, on Oct. 19, but when she went to leave, her car would not start. They got on the phone with AAA, but the call was interrupted by Westwood’s meandering tirade.
So instead, the sisters used the cellphone to record the moment when waiting for a tow truck became yet another thing you cannot do while black.
In viral incidents over the past few years, black and brown people have found themselves accosted or worse while going about their daily lives, in almost laughably innocuous scenarios, such as waiting for a school bus while black, throwing a kindergarten temper tantrum while black, drinking iced tea while black, waiting at Starbucks while black, AirBnB’ing while black and shopping for underwear while black.
But people who suddenly found themselves on the receiving end of racial harassment have been empowered by a new weapon: cellphones. Recordings of the incidents have sparked viral videos and spontaneous hash-tagged nicknames for people like #BBQBecky and #PermitPatty, who have been scorned publicly and on social media and, in some cases, fired from their jobs. Westwood has become known as #SouthParkSusan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-was-white-and-hot-in-a-racist-video-now-shes-viral-and-unemployed/ar-BBP4J2s?li=BBnb7Kx
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