Indian-origin CEO racially abused
NEWDELHI: An Indian-origin CEO in the US was racially abused after he wrote an article saying he would not defend President Donald Trump’s economic agenda following the violence in Charlottesville.
“I recently told The New York Times I was ‘rooting’ for certain aspects of Trump’s economic agenda,” Ravin Gandhi, CEO of GMM Nonstick Coatings, wrote for CNBC. “After Charlottesville and its aftermath, I will not defend Trump even if the Dow hits 50,000, unemployment goes to 1%, and GDP grows by 7%. 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,” he said.
What followed were a string of racist attacks on email and Twitter and Gandhi posted a voicemail on YouTube of a woman saying: “You’re a f ****** Indian pig.”
She also called US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, a “Bangladesh creep” and said they will start taking down Buddhist statues.
The audio has more than 7,000 views, with a user pointing out that India wasn’t a Buddhist-majority country and saying: “Why are racists so ignorant?”
Gandhi told the Chicago Tribune: “Even though my race is a complete non-issue in my dayto-day life, the sad reality is there’s a group of racists in the USA that views me as a secondclass citizen.”