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cbabe

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Fri May 2, 2025, 10:50 AM May 2

Woman raises $250,000 after hurling racist abuse at 5-year-old in viral video: report [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/shiloh-hendrix-rochester/

Woman raises $250,000 after hurling racist abuse at 5-year-old in viral video: report

Travis Gettys
May 2, 2025 10:28AM ET

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.



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.

…naacp hits back … more …

(Living in fear…Christian fundraising. Uh huh.)


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Grifters got to grift bottomofthehill May 2 #1
Setup? jeffreyi May 2 #19
Until this shit stops JustAnotherGen May 2 #2
Disgusting. Shell_Seas May 2 #3
Rochester is the home of the Mayo Clinic and is therefore a pretty well-off city, Ocelot II May 2 #4
Comments by donors: "Anonymous Giver $ 20.00 USD 1 minute ago White Americans have had it with the Parasites destroying Demovictory9 May 2 #5
How do we win them over ? JI7 May 2 #8
We can't atreides1 May 2 #10
BS Dlpger61 May 2 #11
lol nafta WhiskeyGrinder May 2 #13
I assume that was a cynical joke. yardwork May 2 #14
Ugh...racist and ignorant... electric_blue68 May 2 #16
She might be a millionaire next week dalton99a May 2 #6
Well..each of her racist supporters will be $20 poorer Demovictory9 May 2 #17
The orange Hitler and the right wing media has brought out so much hate and evil into our society kimbutgar May 2 #7
The site is nothing but a bunch of KKKers Demovictory9 May 2 #9
Spread this widely. yardwork May 2 #15
+1. POS is white trash on meth dalton99a May 2 #12
She's probably just a generic grifter and, like Trump, realizes what suckers the faux Christians are. Vinca May 2 #18
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2 #20
Hmmm...OK I guess. GP6971 May 2 #21
There's a fundraiser for the kid and his family, if anyone's interested: WhiskeyGrinder May 2 #22
This fucking country ellie May 2 #23
130k FOR THE CHILD justaprogressive May 2 #24
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