Chinatown Tour Guide: Racist Rant Went Too Far

One week after spewing racist insults about San Francisco's Chinatown and its people, a former tour guide is offering an apology and an explanation.

Declining to give her name or show her face, she explained to news media that she was not drunk. "I intended to do it as a satirical comedic portion of the tour," she said.

A video recording of the woman’s rant quickly went viral after it was posted to YouTube last week, garnering nearly a million views as of Tuesday morning.

“[Expletive] your pre-schools … making all that noise at 6 a.m. … [Expletive] your salons ... [expletive] your seafood markets, with your little turtles and frogs inside — OK? Here in America, we don’t eat turtles and frogs,” the guide told tour-goers during her 2 1/2-minute-long rant on her last day working for the tour company, City Sightseeing San Francisco.

The now-ex-tour guide is calling the diatribe an act, saying that it was supposed to be a satirical comedic portion of the tour. The woman would not give her name, but she said she called San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu, admitting that she went way too far.

Chiu said that the woman told him she would call back Tuesday to discuss how she can start making amends to the Chinatown community and all of San Francisco.

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[Warning: Some viewers may find the language used in the video disturbing.]

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