Go back ‘Indian pig’, PIO Trump critic told

New York, Aug. 23: An Indian-origin CEO was racially abused and told to “go back to India” and also take along Nikki Haley after he said that he will not support President Donald Trump’s economic agenda after the US leader appeared to defend white supremacists following the Virginia violence.

US-born Ravin Gandhi, 44, founder and CEO of GMM Nonstick Coatings, a global supplier of coatings for cookware and bakeware, wrote an op-ed for CNBC following Mr Trump’s Charlottesville remarks but was quickly trolled and racially abused by readers, the Chicago Tribune reported.

“I recently told the New York Times I was ‘rooting’ for certain aspects of Mr Trump’s economic agenda,” Mr Gandhi wrote in the op-ed. “After Charlottesville and its aftermath, I will not defend Mr Trump even if the Dow hits 50,000, unemployment goes to 1 per cent, and GDP grows by 7 per cent. Some issues transcend economics, and I will not in good conscience support a President who seems to hate Americans who don’t look like him.”

Mr Gandhi was soon bombarded by hate comments on his option piece, including a voicemail from a woman who said Mr Gandhi should “get your (expletive) garbage and go back to India.” “You’re a f ****** Indian pig.” The woman, using abusive and inappropriate language, told Mr Gandhi he should also take “that other half(expletive) Bangladesh (expletive) with you, Nikki Haley,” referring to the US envoy to the UN.

“She’s (Haley) the one that started all this when she took down the Confederate flag. So don’t tell us you gave him a chance. We don’t give a (expletive) who you gave a chance, OK? We’re going to start taking down Buddhist statues and see how you and Nikki Haley like that,” the woman said.

In the minute and a half voicemail she said Mr Gandhi should “go clean up your own (expletive) country, it’s a filthy mess.”

Mr Gandhi posted the voicemail to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook and shared the nasty emails he received. — PTI