A former member of Houston’s Food Insecurity Board was removed from her position following the circulation of a TikTok video in which she made racially charged remarks about the victims of the recent deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
The flooding, which occurred over the July 4 weekend, has resulted in at least 82 confirmed deaths. Among the victims were over two dozen children attending Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp located near the Guadalupe River.
Ten campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for, according to officials.
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The flooding followed a dramatic rise in the river’s levels — from 3 feet to 34 feet in under two hours — after intense rainfall swept through central Texas.
Sade Perkins, who had been appointed to Houston’s Food Insecurity Board in 2023 by then-Mayor Sylvester Turner, posted a video on her TikTok account, “sades_world8,” in which she made several remarks about the victims, their families, and the demographic makeup of Camp Mystic.
The post drew widespread backlash online before she made her account private.
In the video, Perkins stated, “I know I’m probably gonna get cancelled for this, but 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 a all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp.”
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Perkins continued, “If you ain’t white, you ain’t right. You ain’t getting anywhere, you goin’, period. And I think that context needs to be said in this matter.”
She went on to suggest that the level of media coverage and public sympathy would have been different had the victims been Hispanic.
“It’s not to say that we don’t want the girls to be found, whatever girls that are missing or whatever right now, but you best believe, especially in today’s political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls — especially with them being in east Texas, it should be most likely Hispanic — if this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not begin this type of coverage that they’re getting, no one would give a [expletive],” Perkins said.
She added, “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 yadda-yadda-yadda.”
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In response to the video, Houston Mayor John Whitmire issued a statement through his office confirming that Perkins would not be returning to the board.
“Mayor John Whitmire will not reappoint her and is taking immediate steps to remove her permanently from the board,” the statement read.
In additional portions of the video, Perkins claimed the camp was an “all-white enclave” and criticized the families of the victims for what she alleged was deliberate racial exclusion.
“Before y’all comment me, before y’all start leaving hate comments on my page about, oh, these are just kids and they don’t know no better, the parents of these children who are choosing — and it is a choice in 2025, it is definitely a freaking choice to go into east goddamn Texas and to make a all-white enclave, exclusionary, just for white people,” she said.
Perkins closed the video by comparing flood relief efforts to federal immigration enforcement.
“Once again, this is no shade to the girls, I hope they all get found, but once again, y’all have to understand the climate that we’re living in. They want you to have sympathy for these people,” she said.
“They want you to get out of your bed and to come out of your home and to go find these people and to donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members. Meanwhile, they’re setting up concentration camps and prisons for your family members.”
City officials confirmed Monday that Perkins has been formally removed from any association with the Food Insecurity Board and will not be considered for future appointments.
Here is a video of her apologizing for her horrible video and comments… just kidding she isn’t sorry at all🙄
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