An Edinburgh mum has shared a terrifying experience that saw her and her two young sons racially abused by a man in the capital.
Vanessa Kanbi, who is mother to her 10-year-old son and four-month-old son, had been leaving a trampoline centre with her children when she claims the racial attack took place.
The horrifying ordeal took place when the family were heading towards their car in a nearby car park.
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Vanessa shared her thoughts on the disgusting abuse that she and her sons suffered on her TikTok, saying that the man shouted ‘You effing black b***ards’ towards them.
The verbal attack has left the young mum shaken as she shared with her 11,000 followers that she feels racism is getting worse in the capital.
“I was racially verbally abused in Edinburgh in Scotland. I was with two of my children, my ten year old son and my four month old son,” she shared.
“I’d just taken my son to this new bouncy trampoline place and he’d gone for his birthday with one of his friends.
“So we were just exiting to go into the car park and somebody came out of the Lidl which was just there, we were just walking this way (towards our car) and he was walking this way (towards them).
“So just as he approached us, he was practically in front of us, I wasn’t really looking at him because I’m not like staring at people, and he said at the top of his voice, at the top of his lungs, yelling right, you ‘effing black b***ards.’
“I was so scared, even now recounting this, I wasn’t going to talk about it because I didn’t want to give it any of my energy, but I feel petrified. It was so scary because I was with my children.
“I told my son, in fight or flight mode, and now looking back I should have done things differently, but I said to my son to run to the car.
“I unlocked the car and then heard him shout ‘you should go to the Caribbean’ or something like that.”
Vanessa then said that her ten-year-old got into the car and that she was going as fast as she could pushing her buggy towards the vehicle before unlocking the car seat and fastening her four-month-old in.
“I then had to open the boot and put the buggy away. All the while I was just so scared that this guy was going to come and do only god knows what,” she added.
“Because if he’s brave enough to yell at the top of his lungs in the open air in public at 10am, who knows what this guy is capable of.
“I then took off and drove away. My heart was going at possibly the fastest it has ever gone, I was so scared, and I was so sad.
“I’m trying not to think about it too much as obviously I can deal with that but my son is 10. My four month old was obviously not aware of the situation.
“He has to go through that in his own country that he lives in and it made me wonder how he is going to deal with this.
“He was just like that is basically what I have been through at school, which is just so, so awful.
“I think the situation is getting so much worse. I’ve had so many DMs from people saying it is getting so much worse.
“In my whole lifetime living in Scotland up until now, obviously I’ve lived in other places in the world, I’ve never experienced something like that.
“I know this isn’t the worst situation that could ever happen to somebody but this is just the situation that I have had.”
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