Houston Official Fired Over Racially-Tinged TikTok Rant About Search For Missing Girls

A former member of Houston’s Food Insecurity Board was fired after she posted a racially tinged video mocking victims of the flooding over the July 4 weekend.

Flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas killed at least 82 people, including over two dozen children who were attending Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp located near Kerrville, Texas. Sade Perkins, who was appointed to the board in 2023 by then-Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston, posted the video on her TikTok account, sades_world8, before she made it private. (RELATED: Democrat Rep Justifies Labeling ICE As ‘Terrorist Force’)

“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,” Perkins said in the video. “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.”

“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 fuck, 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 yadda-yadda-yadda,” Perkins continued.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire is removing a food insecurity board member after she made controversial remarks on social media about the deadly flooding at Camp Mystic, a predominantly white Christian girls’ camp. https://t.co/PSP8KK12qM

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Democratic Mayor John Whitmire of Houston said that Perkins would not be reappointed, citing her comments.

“Mayor John Whitmire will not reappoint her and is taking immediate steps to remove her permanently from the board,” the mayor’s office told Fox News in a statement.

Perkins then claimed that the parents of the children would have been demanding that Hispanic children be deported before claiming that the camp was an “all-white, whites-only enclave.”

“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,” Perkins continued. “With all the black people in east Texas, with all the Hispanic people in east Texas, somehow, some way, you have carved out an all-white, whites-only enclave in east Texas for your white children. Yeah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that.”

“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,” Perkins 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. And I need y’all to keep that in mind before y’all get out there and put on the rain boots and go find these little girls.”

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