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White Woman Yells 'N Word' at Chicago Margarita Festival
A black couple was berated with the racist slur several times during Saturday's festival.
CHICAGO, IL - One year to the day after an Evanston comedian hurled racial slurs at a black family for splashing water on her along the shore on a busy Oak Street Beach weekend, another video has surfaced showing a white woman berating a black couple with the same phrase at a South Shore Margarita Festival.
Video has surfaced of the woman using the N-word and spitting on the couple during the Margarita Festival at the South Shore Cultural Center on Saturday. Ernest and Cassie Crim are both school teachers who were attending the two-day festival when the confrontation began as they picked up a set of bean bags that weren’t being used, the couple told Mic.
What followed was captured on video, shared on YouTube, and now viewed more than 18,000 times.
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Be advised the video contains offensive language.
The 54-second clip starts with the woman smacking the camera out of Ernest’s hands. When he picks it up, the woman can be seen yelling the slur several times. Two people with the woman, both black, were nearby and unfazed by the verbal assault.
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“It don’t bother us,” one said.
During the confrontation, Ernest was heard asking the woman what would happen if he hit her.
"You're a guy. If you hit me you're a n-----," she replied.
Just before the video ends, she spits at the couple.
This incident was more overt than what occurred at Oak Street a year ago.
Angelle “Puff” Marie Maison was just heard yelling the word once in the midst of a thoughtless rant. The woman at the Margarita festival is shown repeatedly yelling the derogatory slur directly at the man.
The Crims have filed a criminal complaint, although no arrests have been made. The woman was escorted out of the festival due to its policy against public intoxication.
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