Ex-Houston mayoral appointee who raged at flooded Texas camp for being ‘white only' humiliated on fundraising page
Sade Perkins — who condemned Camp Mystic in an ill-timed rant, just hours after dozens of people died there in a devastating flash flood Friday — is described as 'courageous' on the page, which asks supporters to donate for her 'protection, legal support, and recovery.'
'Sade Perkins is being publicly targeted for telling the truth,' claims the ill-fated Givesendgo page set up by supporter Marian Hills.
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A fundraising page for Sade Perkins was flooded with critics paying a few dollars to leave abusive comments.
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'Sade simply spoke up about racial disparity in emergency response, something many have quietly thought but were too afraid to say.'
The fundraiser aimed to raise $20,000 — but had raked in less than $400 as of Thursday afternoon. Much of that came from critics paying just a few bucks to let them leave nasty comments.
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The fundraising page had raked in just $394 as of Thursday.
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'Paid just to say eatSh-t,' fumed one person, who donated $5, as others dropped f-bombs.
'For your funeral expenses,' another $5 donor seethed, while one critic told her to 'get [an] attorney.'
Perkins sparked outrage when she lashed out at the private girls' camp in Hunt, Texas, where at 27 people, including numerous children, died in the floodwaters that have killed more than 100 people.
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'I know I'm going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls' Christian camp. They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token Black person. It's an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp,' Perkins had said in the TikTok footage.
'If you ain't white you ain't right, you ain't gettin' in, you ain't goin'. Period,' Perkins said Saturday — as the state's overall death toll from the flooding soared to more than 80.
'If this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage that they're getting, no one would give a f–k, and all these white people, the parents of these little girls would be saying things like 'they need to be deported, they shouldn't have been here in the first place' and yada yada yada,' Perkins said.
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire later said he plans to 'permanently remove' Perkins from the city's Food Insecurity Board following the inappropriate racial comments, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday.
Perkins' term on the board expired in January 2025, according to the city's website.
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