"I heard him say, you f*****g p**i.”
A digital creator confronted a boy after hearing a racist remark while carrying out his work, saying that hearing the slur took him back to experiencing racism as a child.
Ali Asghar Shah was delivering paperwork to a customer when he said he heard a young boy use a racist term towards him as he walked back to his car.
He said he had initially chosen not to confront the situation because the boy’s mother appeared stressed while dealing with her children.
Shah later returned to the property after the woman needed help completing the paperwork.
In footage of the interaction, Shah was heard asking:
“Can I just ask? Sorry, not to sound rude, but when I left, did your son make a racist remark? I heard him say, you f*****g p**i.”
Denying that her son had used the slur, the woman replied:
“No, he didn’t. No. He said f**k off to his brother and he was swearing to his brother, but I don’t think he said that.”
Shah insisted that he had heard the remark clearly:
“Well, I heard him clearly, and I’m really sorry. I mean, was I rude to you or anything?”
The woman replied that Shah had not been rude.
The boy subsequently apologised, explaining that he had been speaking to his brother.
Shah questioned the explanation, asking: “But how’s your brother a P**i?”
The boy replied that his brother was not Pakistani before apologising again.
Shah then explained why the incident had affected him, saying: “Normally they say there’s two sides of the story.
“I’m here, like, in the rain, your mom’s obviously stressed out, there’s work to do, and then you call me a f*****g p**i. Like, how do you justify that?”
The boy again said he had been speaking to his brother.
Shah repeated: “Did I say anything rude to you or your family? Your sister threw something outside, I picked it up and gave it back to her. Was I rude?”
Watch the Video. Warning – Discriminatory and Explicit Language
@aliasgharukofficial Some words don’t just hurt you in the moment. They take you back years. Today, “You f***ing Paki” took me straight back to being a child growing up on an estate where my family and I experienced racism far too often. For him, it probably lasted seconds. For me, it brought back years of childhood trauma. I was out doing my job, delivering paperwork to a customer. I handed her the documents and walked back towards my car to give her some privacy and time to read and sign them. I don’t like standing over people or making them feel pressured, especially when they’re already dealing with difficult circumstances. The mother even bantered with me saying you want to take one of my kids, I said I have 2 of my own who are enough and we laughed. When I walked away the kid said “F’in paki” I heard it clearly, but I kept walking. The mother already looked stressed with her children and I thought there was a time and place to address it. When she later came out because she needed help completing part of the paperwork, I put my feelings aside and helped her finish it. Only afterwards did I calmly ask about what I’d heard. Initially it was denied, but he admitted saying it. What saddened me even more was his mother telling me that he also uses the N word towards his little mixed race sister, who looked around two years old. A little mixed-race girl being called a racial slur within her own family, and then a brown man arriving at the doorstep simply doing his job being called another. It makes you wonder where someone so young is learning this language. You grow up, build a life and have children of your own, but you don’t forget everything. Hearing that word took part of me straight back to being that kid again. I’m not sharing this to shame or identify anyone. None of the family appear in this video. We have to teach the next generation better. We keep moving forward in life and praying for peace and patience in a world where there is already far too much suffering and hatred. #racism #saynotoracism #british #racist #standagainstracism ? original sound – Ali Asghar Shah
The exchange ended with Shah adding:
“I’m not here to cause any problems. I didn’t. They like. I’m here to do my job. Do you understand?”
“And obviously it was quite concerning that I’ve gave you letters to sign and I’m walking away cause you said f*****g p**i. It’s just a bit concerning, isn’t it?”
He then handed the paperwork back to the customer and left.
Shah reflected on his experiences of racism growing up. He said hearing the slur took him “straight back to being that kid again” and described the experience as bringing back years of childhood trauma.
Shah also revealed the mother told him that her son uses the N-word towards his mixed-race younger sister.
The comments left Shah questioning where children learn racist language and behaviour, particularly when they are exposed to it at such a young age.
He stressed that he was not sharing the incident to shame or identify the family, adding that none of them appeared in the video.
The experience has instead led Shah to call for greater efforts to challenge racism and teach children about the consequences of discriminatory language.
