Amid rising hatred against Indians in the US, a video went viral claiming that an Indian man harassed a black man and asked to see his ID in a Texas neighborhood. The identity of the men seen in the video was not established and it’s not known when the altercation took place. Several users on TikTok and X shared the video calling out this kind of racism. In the video, apparently made by the black man, the other person could be seen coming out of his house and asking for his ID. The ‘black’ man, in turn, asked for the first person’s ID. Both men agree to show their IDs to each other and also threaten each other to call the police. The ‘black’ man said it was his neighborhood and he was getting harassed in his area. “I know that this is not your house,” the first person told the second person to which the second person said it was indeed not his house, but he was from the same neighborhood.
“This is a protected neighbourhood and you can’t be here,” the first person said.While nothing much is known about the incident or about its veracity, social media users concluded that the first person was an Indian and the second person was a black person — from their accents. Some users noted that the first person’s wife was speaking in Tamil. “This black man is in his own neighborhood walking and this other guy walks over from his house asking for his ID to see if he lives in the neighborhood all because he’s black! If you don’t see that racism is amping up you’re blind! The Profiling and Stereotyping needs to stop,” one wrote. “Indians anywhere are pieces of s**t. It’s been the caste training since childhood,” another wrote. “He has no right to demand for an ID unless he’s a cop,” a third user wrote. “I don’t get this — even if the black guy is not from that neighborhood is there any issue with anyone walking on any public sidewalk in the US? What was the aim of the Indian dude?” another wrote.Some social media users came in defense of the first person and said the ‘black man’ was at fault by entering a protected neighborhood.
