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Watch Man Yell 'N Word' at Woman in Bucktown

Netta Williams pulled out her cellphone to record the man hurling "throwback racism" on the North Side early Monday morning.

Chicago, IL - A North Side Chicago woman pulled out her cell phone early Monday morning to record a man hurling racist taunts at her while she was walking near Western and Fullerton in the city’s Bucktown neighborhood.

Netta Williams, a Lincoln Square resident, was smiling through the entire video, which lasted for all of two-and-a-half minutes.

In the video, a man appears to be following her about a half block away around 2:30 a.m.

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“Record all you want you f***ing n****r, you piece of s**t,” he is heard yelling.

He also used another racist phrase Williams described as “throwback racism.”

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She told DNAinfo Chicago: "I don't know how you can say we are past this; we are obviously not past this."

“This is how we are going to make America great again, and stuff,” Williams said in the video, apparently referring to the controversial Donald Trump presidential campaign.

“He says to get out of his country, but he doesn’t look like he’s of Native American descent,” Williams continued. “He told me to go back to Africa. I’ve never been to Africa, but I hear it’s dope.”

“That’s tonight’s bit of racism at 2:30 in the morning,” she said before signing off.

Watch the video via the DNAinfo Chicago YouTube site.

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