


While the nation mourns the devastating floods that wreaked havoc in Texas, some are taking to TikTok to use the disaster as a jumping off point for shocking racial commentary.
Sade Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, posted a video on TikTok pointing out the “double standard” between attitudes towards the girls at Camp Mystic and children of families being deported.
“Camp Mystic is a Whites-only girls Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian, they don’t have a Token Black person, it is an all White, White-only conservative Christian camp,” Perkins claimed.
“They want you to have sympathy for these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members. And I need you all to keep that in mind before you all get out there and put on your rain boots and go find these little girls.”
Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s office condemned Perkins’ comments: “The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in a decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing,” the statement from the mayor’s office read.
The mayor’s office told FOX News they would not reappoint Perkins and would be “taking immediate steps to remove her permanently from the board.”
She’s not the only one trying to politicize the flood, which has claimed the lives of at least 82 people.
Another TikToker, who goes by the username bossysptenstarsimon, implied that some higher power sent the floods to target white people in particular in a video under the caption “I hope this is a lesson 2 ppl in the floods.”
“I find it ironic that it was the deep southern [sic] of Texas that it happened to,” the user, who is black, says. “Are we not paying attention to the certain” — at this point, she stops speaking and brushes her face, to suggest skin tone —”that’s on the videos?”
“Hopefully this is opening up some eyes and showing people that he watches,” she adds.
A number of leftwing celebrities and political figures have also politicized the flooding, with many implying that Texas — a largely Republican state — brought the disaster upon itself by voting for President Donald Trump, who they say cut disaster response funding. But meteorologists agree that the devastation in Texas was in no way caused or made worse by the administration’s cuts, as The Daily Wire reported.