'I say N-word all the time, I am 20% Black': Indian-origin man's racial slur viral, he says he's proud
A video of an Indian-origin man, identified as Stanley Thomas, created major outrage on social media as the man was seen abusing a Black woman using the N-word repeatedly. The video was captured at Moxie's, a restaurant in Dallas' Uptown neighborhood, where Stanley abused the woman.
The woman then decided to film the act and Stanley did not hesitate.
'I say the N-word all the time,' he said emphasizing the hard 'r' ending. The woman told him that the video would go viral. To that, he said he's proud and he can also disclose his name on the camera. And then he said his name is Stanley Thomas.
Thomas said he can use the word as he is 20 per cent Black because of his Siddi ethnicity -- a minority ethnic group in India of African descent.
The woman asked Stanley if she could AirDrop the video so he could "post it" with his "fellow Indian friends and tell them how you said the N-word all the time, and you're 20% Black".
As the video went viral, Stanley's Facebook profile surfaced and it was found that he worked as a senior business analyst at Christus Health, a Texas-based Catholic healthcare nonprofit.
Christus replied to the viral video and distanced itself from Stanley.
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"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. He is not an Associate of CHRISTUS Health. We do not condone this behavior, nor does it align with our mission and core values," the company said in a statement.
Many social media users commented that the man chose to act bold unnecessarily just because a woman was taking the video. "Does his 20% blackness not give him the N-word pass?" one wrote. "And he probably writes 'white' on all his docs," another wrote.
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