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White customer at Mexican restaurant swears at Spanish-speaking manager
A white woman eating at a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia insulted the manager after she heard him speak Spanish.
Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.Google Maps
Feb. 19, 2019, 1:55 PM EST
By Nicole Acevedo
A video showing a white woman swearing at the general manager of a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia for speaking Spanish went viral over the weekend.
“English is our first language, so you need to speak English,” the woman, identified in the video as Jill, screamed at Sergio Budar, the manager. “Get the f--- out of my country.”
One of two videos capturing the incident shows how customers at Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were astonished at the woman’s remarks.
“It makes me feel angry, sad. It's unbelievable that we're still seeing this kind of behavior to this day,” Budar, who's originally from Mexico, told NBC News. “I’ve been living here for almost two decades, and counting. I got my U.S. citizenship while here, but that doesn’t mean that people can’t speak other languages that are not English.”
White customer to Spanish-speaking manager: Get out of my country
FEB. 19, 201902:04
The website Latino Rebels first reported the story on Sunday.
As Jill continues to scream at Budar, saying that she has “no problem with the way he looks,” the man dining with her tries to stop her from shouting.
At the same time, one of the chefs that works at the restaurant intervened in the situation.
“If you’re going to be racist you’re going to leave," said the chef.
To which Jill replied, “I’m not racist.”
"No, that’s racist. This man takes care of me," said the chef, referring to Budar. "And you’re gonna get outta here if you’re gonna talk to him like that."
Similar incidents have gone viral in recent years.
Just last year, a white lawyer threatened to call immigration authorities on some restaurant workers in New York City for speaking Spanish. At a store in Colorado, a young woman defended two Spanish-speaking friends who were being harassed by an older woman. In Montana, a border patrol agent detained two womenwho were chatting in Spanish while buying groceries.
According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, America’s largest cities saw a 176 percent spike in anti-Latino hate crimes the first two weeks after the 2016 election.
In 2017, reports of anti–Hispanic/Latino crimes rose by more than 24 percent, according to FBI numbers.
White customer at a Mexican restaurant screams “get the f--- out of my country” to Spanish-speaking manager
A white woman eating at a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia insulted the manager after she heard him speak Spanish.
Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.Google Maps
Feb. 19, 2019, 1:55 PM EST
By Nicole Acevedo
A video showing a white woman swearing at the general manager of a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia for speaking Spanish went viral over the weekend.
“English is our first language, so you need to speak English,” the woman, identified in the video as Jill, screamed at Sergio Budar, the manager. “Get the f--- out of my country.”
One of two videos capturing the incident shows how customers at Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were astonished at the woman’s remarks.
“It makes me feel angry, sad. It's unbelievable that we're still seeing this kind of behavior to this day,” Budar, who's originally from Mexico, told NBC News. “I’ve been living here for almost two decades, and counting. I got my U.S. citizenship while here, but that doesn’t mean that people can’t speak other languages that are not English.”
White customer to Spanish-speaking manager: Get out of my country
FEB. 19, 201902:04
The website Latino Rebels first reported the story on Sunday.
As Jill continues to scream at Budar, saying that she has “no problem with the way he looks,” the man dining with her tries to stop her from shouting.
At the same time, one of the chefs that works at the restaurant intervened in the situation.
“If you’re going to be racist you’re going to leave," said the chef.
To which Jill replied, “I’m not racist.”
"No, that’s racist. This man takes care of me," said the chef, referring to Budar. "And you’re gonna get outta here if you’re gonna talk to him like that."
Similar incidents have gone viral in recent years.
Just last year, a white lawyer threatened to call immigration authorities on some restaurant workers in New York City for speaking Spanish. At a store in Colorado, a young woman defended two Spanish-speaking friends who were being harassed by an older woman. In Montana, a border patrol agent detained two womenwho were chatting in Spanish while buying groceries.
According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, America’s largest cities saw a 176 percent spike in anti-Latino hate crimes the first two weeks after the 2016 election.
In 2017, reports of anti–Hispanic/Latino crimes rose by more than 24 percent, according to FBI numbers.
White customer at a Mexican restaurant screams “get the f--- out of my country” to Spanish-speaking manager
