Social media spreads video of Walmart customer telling employee 'Go back to your country'





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A video making the rounds on social media shows a white customer berating a Texas Walmart employee and making insulting remarks about another shopper.

Liz Colunga posted the video on Facebook on behalf of her friend, identified only as Adela, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in El Salvador. Adela made the video last week while she was working at a Walmart in Irving, in that store's vision center.

The interaction between Adela and the customer started to go awry after he said he was having trouble seeing with the glasses he had just picked up and she referred him to a doctor. He asked to see a white employee instead.

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According to the Dallas Morning News, Adela told the man he was being racist and went to get her supervisor. She started making the video when the man referred to a black woman in an electric wheelchair as fat and obese and claimed he paid her medical bills because he goes to work every day and pays taxes.

Although Adela tells him, "I pay my own taxes, too," he continues with his rant: "All of these foreigners are living off of us good working white people....I know you're here to stay. Y'all should go to your own countries and fix up your own countries."

At that point, as her supervisor approaches, Adela tells the customer, "OK, sir, I don't want to hear that any more."

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Colunga told The Huffington Post that she posted the video to Facebook with Adela's permission because of growing anti-immigrant sentiment since the election of President Donald Trump. Posting on Facebook as La Prieta, Colunga said, "Thanks to all the shares on here and beyond, this video has made news and is making history!!!"

Walmart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.