A Georgia mother furiously defended her nine-month-old after a ‘privileged’ man asked her to quiet the baby because of his sensitive hearing.

Mom influencer and mother-of-four, Jervecia ‘Vee’ Whitaker, 34, was dining at Vietnamese restaurant Paris Banh Mi in McDonough, near Atlanta, when an unidentified man complained about her daughter Montana‘s excited screams. 

‘I know it’s loud,’ Vee said in a TikTok video last week. ‘But he’s an adult, he can leave, and he chooses not to leave.’ 

‘You can learn to be respectful,’ the man, who was with another companion, tossed back at her after speaking with management. 

‘She’s a child, sir!’ Vee exploded. ‘I am happy that she has a voice and that she can speak, because there are children out here that can’t even speak and are nonverbal. So I am grateful for my child to be able to have a voice.

‘There’s nonverbal child out here and you’re acting like I’m supposed to suppress my child’s voice?’ 

Vee, her children, and her sister were at the restaurant for roughly 45 minutes, and the man and his wife were already there when they arrived for the noon outing last Thursday. 

‘We were sitting there and he kind of just walked up to the table and said: “Hey, can you have your baby be quiet?”‘ Vee told Daily Mail in a phone interview. ‘I was confused, because at first, I thought he meant the older kids, and it was just the baby.’ 

Mom influencer and mother-of-four, Jervecia ‘Vee’ Whitaker, 34, was dining at Vietnamese restaurant Paris Banh Mi in McDonough, near Atlanta, when an unidentified man complained about her daughter Montana’s excited screams 

‘I know it’s loud,’ Vee said in a TikTok video last week. ‘But he’s an adult, he can leave, and he chooses not to leave.’ The man replied: ‘You can learn to be respectful’

The man confirmed he meant Montana and insisted the request was due to his sensitive hearing.    

The glamorous mother told her 8,500 followers in a follow-up video that if the man knew he had a sensitivity to loud sounds, it was up to him to prepare by bringing ‘ear muffs or whatever it is he needs’ to help himself. 

‘I can try [to quiet her], but she’s a baby,’ Vee told Daily Mail. ‘But there’s nothing I really can do. 

‘I do try to be mindful about having the kids in places, but at the end of the day, I’m not going to say my kids can’t go anywhere.’ 

The mother-of-four – whose children are nine months, three, five, and eight – takes her children to Paris Banh Mi multiple times a week and says it’s a ‘chatty’ restaurant. 

‘We go in there all the time,’ she told Daily Mail.  

During the exchange, the man’s companion sat stiffly and looked visibly uncomfortable, and at one point, tried to calm the situation, to no avail. 

Vee said the woman later approached her to apologized and told the family that ‘he loves all people.’ 

Vee went on to suggest that the man leave the restaurant if he had a problem with her daughter making noise. ‘You can’t control every movement of a child,’ she told Daily Mail 

‘You can teach them daily, but there’s going to be some moments. People are too comfortable giving you snarky remarks or snarky looks and it honestly needs to stop,’ she told Daily Mail  

The restaurant’s manager also attempted to diffuse the situation, as the two yelled back and forth, telling Vee he understood her daughter was just a child and apologized for the confrontation. 

‘I see you come in here a lot,’ the manager said in the video. ‘I’m thankful. And every time you come here with your kids, I’ve never had a problem.’ 

Vee said the manager had even followed them into the parking lot to encourage them to come back, she told Daily Mail.  

The man also accused Vee, who is black, of suggesting he was racist because she called him ‘privileged.’ She denied it, saying that privilege doesn’t equal racism. 

‘I said privileged because you’re an adult and you expected me to remove my child when I patronize this restaurant just like you. That is privilege. You’re expecting me to put yourself over everybody else.’ 

To Daily Mail, she said: ‘That’s the first thing people go to [is race].’ 

And travel and food influencer stands by on her assessment that the man was acting privileged and doesn’t regret standing up for her child. 

‘You can’t control every movement of a child,’ she said. ‘You can teach them daily, but there’s going to be some moments. People are too comfortable giving you snarky remarks or snarky looks and it honestly needs to stop.’ 

Despite the incident, Vee said she and her kids will be back dining at the restaurant soon.