America is a racist country.
We already knew this once it elected for the second time a loud and proud bigot who has dedicated his second term to reinforcing right-wing nationalism and eroding civil protections for practically everyone but heterosexual, cisgendered white people. However, if that’s somehow not enough to convince you, there’s a white woman who went viral for hurling racial slurs at a 5-year-old Black child at a park in Minnesota, who reportedly has raised more than half a million dollars to supposedly help her relocate after her cruel and egregious racism allegedly got her harassed.
Hell, maybe it’s the world that’s racist, not just America. Either way, anti-Blackness is such a strong influencer in the Western world that people saw the following video and thought: Yeah, that child-attacking Klanny Karen is sympathetic.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, the woman who can be seen carrying her own child at Soldiers Field Memorial Park as she repeatedly called another child the N-word has been identified as Shiloh Hendrix of Rochester. The Tribune noted that a woman of the same name set up a page on a supposedly “Christian” fundraising service, whining that the video had put her family into a “very dire situation.” She also, on her fundraiser, justified calling a small child the N-word by claiming the boy had stolen something from her 18-month-old’s diaper bag, which is why she “called the kid out for what he was.” She actually offered the same pitiful excuse in the video after she was confronted by someone else at the park over her racism.
“If he acts like one, then he’s going to be called one,” Hendrix can be heard saying about the child to the man who confronted her after she doubled and tripled down on calling him the slur.
Some people on social media mentioned that the Black child is rumored to have autism, but that doesn’t matter, whether it’s true or not….
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