Two Native organizations in Fairbanks have denounced a recent harassment incident at a local grocery store.
A passerby encourages a man to leave after he addressed two Alaska Native shoppers using racist language outside a Fairbanks Fred Meyer store on June 26, 2024. An encounter outside a Fairbanks grocery store in which a man launched a racist diatribe against Alaska Native shoppers is drawing condemnation from area Native groups, as well as store management.
“Yeah, you —ing Natives shouldn’t even be allowed to —ing shop. Go back out to the woods and do your —ing bull—-,” the man says in the video. A 2018 study by the research group Information Insights estimates Alaska Native organizations pump $1 billion FNA represents some 10,000 Alaska Natives and American Indians in the Fairbanks area. TCC represents 20,000 Indigenous people across the broader Interior. In the statement, the organizations ask Fred Meyer to ban the man in the video from the store, and to ensure security prevents such incidents from happening again.
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