Viral Racist Videos Gone Wild
A disturbing “Karen” clip drives home the dangers of caught-on-camera “everyday racism” exposés
A Twitter video clip that has been retweeted over 85,000 times shows a woman cowering, whimpering and shrieking in terror while a man taunts and berates her, apparently for cutting him off in traffic and flipping him the bird. And the man, who filmed the video and put it online, is meant to be the good guy.
The maker of the video, Karlos Dillard — a self-described entertainer and public speaker who is black—claimed that the woman, whom he mockingly addressed as “Karen,” had also used a racial slur.
Dillard’s post was boosted by several black-focused websites, including Essence (“Seattle-Based Karen Breaks Into Theatrics Once The Man She Allegedly Calls The N-Word Starts Recording”) and The Grio (“Seattle Black man films hysterical ‘Karen’ who falsely claims she is being attacked”). But it stirred up some Twitter controversy even in quarters usually sympathetic to the anti-racism cause. People noticed odd details. One…
