A woman caught using racial slurs against a kindergarten-age boy in Minnesota has raised a quarter of a million dollars after video of the incident went viral, according to reports.
Cell phone video spread widely on social media Wednesday showing a man confronting a white woman at a playground at Soldiers Field Memorial Park for allegedly calling the boy the N-word, and she then repeats the slur to the man filming the video and accuses the child of stealing from her, reported the Star Tribune.
“If he acts like one then he’s going to be called one,” the woman says in the video.
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Social media commentators say the child is a Black boy who is around 5 years old and has autism, but the newspaper has not independently confirmed those details.
The woman was identified on social media as Shiloh Hendrix, of Rochester, and a woman using that name set up a page on a Christian fundraising service saying the video had put her family into a “very dire situation" and justified her actions, saying the boy had stolen something from her 18-month-old’s diaper bag and claiming that she “called the kid out for what he was.”
“I fear that we must relocate,” Hendrix wrote. “I have two small children who do not deserve this. We have been threatened to the extreme by people online. Anything will help! We cannot, and will not live in fear!”
The fundraiser had a goal set for $250,000, and she appears to have collected that much by Friday morning.
One of the anonymous donors listed their name as "Dylan Roof," which is the name of a man who killed nine Black worshipers at a historic Black church in South Carolina in 2015.
“Now she’s fundraising on this, and that is just abhorrent and totally unacceptable,” said Rochester NAACP president Wale Elegbede. “She needs to face legal consequences for all her actions. This is a disgrace.”
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