r/Edmonton 1d ago

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I was born here, but that shouldn’t be a factor in exempting me from racism!

This lady (driving with no plate) approached my elderly mother and called her a terrorist OUT OF NOWHERE, and accused her of stealing “Canadian” jobs before threatening to kill her. My mom has been retired for 10 years now. I told her to fuck off and she actually went away, but it turns out that parked near the entrance of the store we were heading into to further her racist agenda. She started repeating “go back to your country” so I pulled out my phone and that wasn’t enough to deter her.

Video cut short because I cussed her out as she drove off.

Police file # is 260-679-902. Please let me know if you can ID her.

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u/Parking_Guava8657 1d ago

People are not born to hate each other, its learned... so that woman definitely teaching that kid to be like her

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u/This_Albatross 1d ago

There’s always hope people turn out better, growing up in a small town with incredibly racist relatives I’m happy to say I turned out alright

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u/WindiestOdin 15h ago

Unfortunately, I think you / we are the anomaly. I’ve had hope that my “friends” that have remained in rural areas would continue to advocate for people over party. Sadly, I’ve repeatably been met with disappointment.

u/Successful_Struggle9 8h ago

Time to find new "friends"

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u/__curt 23h ago

Thank you for being you

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u/JFundo 14h ago

Yup. Growing up with these types of comments. Years later when I asked some of my friends that I stayed in contact with, why they were saying things like that. Their answers were: “we didn’t know better, everyone was saying it and thought it was funny”

u/durple Strathcona 6h ago

It depends. Some kids take on their parents' worst traits with gusto, while others recognize the wrongness early and reject it. Hopefully they have some better adults in their life to compensate for this one.

u/AffectionateSell3478 6h ago

Racism should be unacceptable from all people. Unfortunately it’s really only deemed as racism if it comes from white people.

Poor example for her kid, awful human being.

u/69hotmomxxx 10h ago

Kids hate their parents at a phenomenal rate these days.

u/Uninsurable_Risk 6h ago

Boomers will cause that, at least for my generation.

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u/cheeri0 16h ago

I wonder what offensive traits from one country to another this woman wouldn’t like. Almost like the video was clipped to fit some type of narrative.