Posted on 08/21/2023 4:08:51 PM PDT by Morgana
An Ethiopian woman is facing a severe backlash after she accused an Asian-owned boba tea shop of 'stealing black culture' and went on a nasty tirade against the workers.
A video of the woman, who was later identified as Alewia Tola Roba - a research fellow at the Colorado State Government Capitol Building - going on the explosive rant at a drink restaurant called Trap Tea - The Boba Plug in Aurora, Colorado, was first shared to Twitter in August 2020.
However, the clip recently went viral again after it resurfaced on Reddit in a post titled: 'Karen accuses Indonesians of "stealing black culture".'
Alewia, who was 23 at the time, berated the employees, screamed at her fellow customers, and used racial slurs while claiming that the establishment was making money off of black culture because it used the word 'trap' in its name.
A 'trap house' is a term often used in the black community to refer to a place where drugs are sold.
'I have a question, is this black owned?' Alewia could be heard asking an employee as she entered the restaurant.
'Uh no,' he told her, to which she replied, 'OK, interesting.'
She then headed to the counter to pick up her pre-placed order, where she once again asked a worker if the store was 'black owned.'
'No, we're Indonesian,' he explained.
'OK, do you think you guys are using black culture to gain attention and gain customers?' she fired back to the flustered employee.
She then started screaming at the top of her lungs to everyone else in the shop: 'This establishment is not black owned but they're stealing black culture.'
'You're thieves. Asian people stealing black culture once again. It's OK, you'll be exposed,' she continued during her nearly two-minute long outburst.
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Saw this video this evening.
I think trap house came from law enforcement in reference to the Man Trap that one enters to buy drugs, where as one enters a version of a cage or enclosure to buy drugs through a small door.
The trap portion is that one may end up locked inside the enclosure exposed to possible gunfire from the occupants of the house if they do not like you.
Do not see a boba tea shop having a man trap.
Closest I see of public man traps is drive through fast food joints, where as barriers and vehicles trap one to exposure to bad actors.
People can be surprisingly racist in various African countries. Edi Amin kicked all the Indians out of Uganda when he was in power. When I was there in 1994 they were starting to trickle back in. One of my coworkers was invited to a Ugandan’s home for dinner. When he arrived the guy’s kids started crying. Turns out when they misbehaved they were told to stop or the white man would come and beat them up. And we all know what’s going on down in South Africa.
I have known some Ethiopians and hey impressed me as being more sensible than many folks. They certainly didn’t get into any of this idea that each ethnic group must have monopolies on certain products and words.
More importantly though, I doubt many black people want to be associated with Trap anything, especially when associated with drug houses. 🙂
Good point.
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