Saint Louis Waitress Apologizes For Racist SnapChat Video

ST. LOUIS, MO — Tabitha Duncan, a 20-year old waitress in St. Louis, has apologized for a racist SnapChat video posted publicly to Facebook earlier this week. The 15-second video, which has since been deleted, shows Duncan riding in a pick-up truck along a dirt road at night, hurling one of a series racial epithets at the camera. Duncan appears to be drinking, as does the driver of the truck.

"Look at my soon-to-be sister-in-law," the cameraman says just after Duncan uses the offensive language. "She looks so pretty."

Duncan apologized Tuesday.

"I was underage drinking, and I said something stupid," she told the New York Daily News, adding that she is "so sorry" and has learned a lot of lessons from the incident. "I didn't mean to hurt anybody. I was drunk. I need to seek help."

Despite the horrific video, Duncan says she isn't a racist because she has black friends and didn't know she was being recorded. Yes, she really said that.

Duncan was a waitress at Social Bar and Grill, a local Hooters-like establishment featuring scantily-clad servers, until she was fired this week. The bar was hit with a social media campaign after the SnapChat post went public and the owners released a statement Monday afternoon calling the video "vile."

According to the sleuthing of a prominent civil rights attorney, Duncan had recently enrolled in the U.S. Air Force, which — according to the Riverfront Times — said it "values diversity and inclusion" and is looking into the matter.

Screenshot via Facebook