A TikToker says she confronted a man on a plane after she saw him call her a 'big black woman' and complain about having to sit next to her in texts to friends

• A TikToker said she confronted a man who was sending racist text messages about her on a flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta.
• In the video, Taila Rouse tells the man she is "disgusted" by his messages.
• Rouse said the man was sending text messages that said airlines should raise their prices to "weed out" Black and gay people.

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A TikToker posted a video that appears to show her confronting a man who she said was sending racist text messages about her while he was sitting next to her on a flight.

In the video posted on Friday, Taila Rouse says that she didn't want to say anything to the man at first, but she wanted to make him feel as uncomfortable as she felt when she noticed the messages on the screen. Rouse has more than 25,000 followers on her account, where she mainly posts travel tips and hotel reviews.

In the video caption, Rouse said that the altercation happened on a flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta earlier in the week. According to Rouse, she glanced over at the man's phone and saw the words "big black woman" in a text message, which made her feel inclined to keep reading the conversation.

"He and his family went on and on about the woes of being stuck next to black and gay people," Rouse said. "Then I see this man say he hopes airlines raise prices so these people get weeded out."

The video appears to show Rouse in an airplane window seat talking to someone off-camera next to her. After accusing the person of sending texts that had made her uncomfortable, Rouse added that she wasn't going to repeat the messages out loud because everyone in the aisle "doesn't need to know, but I just want you to know that I know."

Rouse posted a follow-up video of a man texting from an airplane seat, with three outgoing text messages visible on the phone screen.

"Hopefully the airlines will continue to raise prices and weed out these people. Ryan is sitting next to a huge black woman," the messages say in the video.

"If you're going to be bold enough to pull your phone out in the middle seat of an airplane and freely talk disrespectfully about Black people, then I'm going to be bold enough to say something to you," Rouse wrote in the video caption.

Rouse did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.