A woman has accused staff at the Beaverton Main Library in Oregon of racism after she said she was approached over noise while, according to her, two children were allowed to run around the building without being stopped. The confrontation was recorded and posted to TikTok by an account CB_Whitabetes_01, with the handle @hunkeh_tamer2. The video gained more than 420,800 views and over 71,200 likes. In the video, the woman is seen speaking to an off-screen library staff member. On-screen text describes the location as the “‘LIBERAL’ Beaverton MAIN LIBRARY” and refers to alleged racism there. The woman said she had been listening to “a young lady allow her children to run around” the library “without any kind of restrictions or any respect for other people.” She then asked the staff member, “Can you explain the difference for me why she’s able to be disrupted, disrespectful, but I as a Black person in the library minding my own business in a corner actually gets approached?” She says she was approached over headphone noise while children went unaddressed The staff member initially said he believed she was referring to “the child that’s in the cubicle,” which the woman corrected, saying there were two children “running around over here with, I think, a babysitter who’s just taking them down to play on the elevator.” She said, “There’s two children that were just running around over in that little area by the computers,” and added that an adult with them appeared to be “either a nanny or a babysitter, possibly.” @ ♬ – The woman said her core issue was not the children themselves but how she was treated in comparison. “My problem isn’t actually that. My problem is, is you target me,” she said, gesturing to her headphones. She argued that the children “get to have that freedom, that privilege,” and defined privilege as “something that certain demographics aren’t allowed to have.” She said this was why she avoided the library, citing what she described as racism. This is not the first case of a Black woman describing similar treatment, as seen in one dispute over at a New Mexico nail salon. The staff member responded, “Okay, well, I understand your concern. I’m sorry that I made you feel that way today.” The woman said the issue was not limited to him, stating, “It’s other people too. It’s other librarians.” She said she had been visiting the library for a couple of years while working on a book about what she called “whitey privilege” and “white culture in white systems.” She said this was the second time she had been approached about noise while, in her account, “white children” were allowed to “run around and be loud, disrespectful, not considerate with their parents with them.” She said she had filed a complaint after the first incident but said no action was taken. “I’m getting really tired of experiencing the racism here,” she said, adding that she has to “brace” herself before entering the library because she anticipates similar treatment. She then asked the staff member directly, “What should I do on the third one?” and asked whether that would be when she should file another complaint. When the staff member asked if there was anything he could do for her at that moment, she suggested he have conversations with library staff she described as racist, including one employee she said “has a black daughter” and whom she called “especially racist.” She said she had offered to provide the library’s director with support in the form of what she called racial literacy training, but said the offer was declined. She claimed the director told her the library had already conducted DEI training, which she said “only benefited white people for the most part, white women specifically.” In the video caption and comments, the creator wrote that she was raising the incident to support what she described as her “work & safety from the hunkbrary & Hunkbrarians.” Responding to a commenter who asked why she had been approached, the creator wrote that a staff member “claimed he could hear the music coming out my headphones,” and said, “Fun fact: I wasn’t listening to music. I was listening to a podcast.” She added that staff “never approach the undomesticated but they will approach me because any noise in the library is likely coming from someone in the corner reading and writing.” Such racial targeting of Black women in public spaces has been noticed elsewhere, as when a Black woman in California received a letter from a neighbor telling her the place belongs to Armenian and white people. In a later comment, the creator wrote that she had received “a violation” the day after the incident but said she “won the appeal.” She added, “And I didn’t even call them a Hunkeh like in my other videos.” Comments on the video included a range of reactions. One commenter wrote, “The children literally can be heard. And he’s acting like he can’t hear them.” Another wrote, “That’s not racism, that’s a society. Kids are part of a society, loud headphones is rude.” A different commenter wrote, “they don’t want black people there. that’s why they’re being racist.” Another commenter said, “He heard them but chose to selectively ignore them.”