A white homeless man threatened to call the police because he was the only white person in line to receive items from a food pantry and felt unsafe, a viral TikTok video shows.
Shirley Raines, known on the social media platform as @beauty2thestreetz often shares videos of her passing out food to those in need.
As diplomatically as she could, she explained to the man that his sense of privilege placed the good work that she was doing in jeopardy — and was not welcomed.
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“I know you’re not talking like that. You are going to ruin it for everybody,” she says in a video posted to her TikTok account. “I heard your speech, and it’s, quite frankly, rude.”
Raines dedicates her time to serving unsheltered citizens of San Diego, California. Her work has inspired over five million people to follow her on TikTok just to see the various ways she cares for the vulnerable and underserved.
Raines shared with the man that she and her team drove all the way from Los Angeles to service the community, and she did not intend to let him disrupt the good work she planned to complete.
“You are responsible for you. You being the only white person in that line. We have lived that plight all our life … being the only Black person in the space not feeling protected and safe,” she snapped at him. “We are not here to hear your cup of tears. Stand in that line and do the best you can.”
“Do not come up here bullying us… and the fact that you would pick up that phone and call the police because you think you’re not being served properly, and f**k it up for the rest of the people in the heat, I find it, quite frankly, selfish and rude,” she added.
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