Former Houston mayoral appointee rages at flooded Texas girls camp for being ‘white-only'
'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,' Sade Perkins said in a widely condemned video on her private TikTok account.
'If you ain't white you ain't right, you ain't gettin' in, you ain't goin'. Period,' Perkins said — as the state's overall death toll from the devastating flooding soared, with the number of dead now at 80.
She then claimed no one would care if the victims were minorities.
'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.
4 Sade Perkins, a former Houston mayoral appointee, spews hate about the 'white-only' girls camp devastated by Texas' flooding, critics say.
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Perkins was appointed to the city's Food Insecurity Board by former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner in 2023.
Her term expired in January — and Houston Mayor John Whitmire said Sunday that he has no plans to reappoint her, particularly after her 'deeply inappropriate comments.'
4 Perkins also responds to comments on her video with even worse comments about the mass casualty flood.
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In the first 2.5-minute video that Perkins posted after the flooding, she recorded the rolling homepage for Camp Mystic while ranting about its 'exclusionary' habits that fostered a 'whites-only enclave.'
The post quickly went viral as it drew massive criticism.
Perkins, seemingly energized by the hate she was receiving, punched back with another video.
'I get that white people are not used to people telling them and calling them out on their racism and telling them about their double standards and how you wouldn't give a damn about other children and how there's children in ICE detention right now who y'all don't give two f–ks about,' she ranted. 'There's no prayers going up for them, but we're supposed to stop the world and stop everything we're doing to go and hunt for these little missing white girls.'
4 Perkins revels in the hate she received online.
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4 At least 80 people were killed during the Texas floods.
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Perkins lamely added that she still hopes the missing campers are found.
Whitmire said her comments hold 'no place in a decent society.'
A counselor at the camp also is still missing, as are scores of others across the state.
Camp Mystic, which was set to celebrate its hundredth year, has many high-ranking alumnae from Texas' political elite, including daughters of multiple governors and former First Lady Laura Bush.
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