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October 20, 2021, 8:13 am
Video of a white woman insisting a Black woman needed to get off “private property” because Karen was so certain she didn’t live in the neighborhood has gone viral.
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“My White neighbor doesn’t believe a black woman like myself can live in her neighborhood,” @ninjanashbash captioned the video she uploaded to TikTok.
The one-minute snippet is clearly the middle part of a longer altercation between the white woman and the people she stopped, in which they seem to be arguing about who is allowed access to a large open grassy area.
“Don’t think you have the right to come in front of somebody and ask where they live,” the TikToker told the woman.
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“Go look it up. This is ours,” the “Karen” insisted, pointing to the grass. “That’s yours.”
It took only seconds for her to escalate things to threatening to call the cops, which @ninjanashbash encouraged her to go ahead and do.
“This isn’t private property. I live right here. I can be anywhere I want to be,” she said. “I live right here. I have just as much right to this land as anyone else does.”
The white woman insisted that the TikToker doesn’t live there, and the video simply cut out after that.
According to follow-up comments from @ninjanashbash, the altercation seemed to stem from the fact that the woman didn’t believe the TikToker’s property was part of the neighborhood, which she identified as Woodbridge Village Association in Irvine, California. The woman also insisted that she was on the HOA board of directors, attempting to assert a higher level of knowledge to win the back and forth.
Regardless of the circumstances, the policing of something so trivial and insistence that a Black woman didn’t live in the correct neighborhood for where she was walking was a tired bit of viral racism that viewers have seen pop up far too commonly on social media in recent years.
“Why don’t people just mind their own f—ken business?” asked u/antoniv1. “Even IF she didn’t live there, she’s simply walking her dog. I live in an HOA condo complex. I wouldn’t give a flying f—k if someone from another neighborhood walked their dog in our complex park.”
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“She’s from a time when HOA meant no black people lived in the neighborhood,” suggested another Redditor.
While people are clamoring for more information or even a part two, nothing further has been posted as of yet.
*First Published: October 20, 2021, 8:13 am
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