Sometimes a story is so disgraceful you almost don’t want to give it oxygen. But silence lets this twisted brand of “activism” fester in the shadows — and that’s why Sade Perkins’ remarks about the deadly Camp Mystic flood deserve to be called out for what they are: cruel, race-baiting insanity.
In case you missed it, Perkins, a former Houston mayoral appointee, posted a TikTok video days after the flood that killed or swept away several young girls. For any normal person, that’s an unimaginable tragedy — the kind that unites people, whatever their race, in grief and sympathy. But not for Perkins.
Instead, she used the bodies of drowned children as a prop to rant about how the camp was supposedly “white-only.” She sneered, “If you ain’t white you ain’t right… you ain’t gettin’ in. Period.” Then she doubled down: if those girls had been minorities, “no one would give a f--k.”
Let’s be honest: this is not “speaking truth to power.” It’s a grotesque misuse of power — the power to exploit tragedy for viral attention and moral smugness. It’s race-baiting, plain and simple, dressed up as some twisted brand of “equity.” And it’s morally rotten.
Even if the camp had a history of being exclusive — and plenty of alumni have disputed that claim — you do not stand on the fresh graves of children to score cheap political points. You do not measure human tragedy on a racial scorecard. You do not mock dead kids and call that “justice.” That is depravity.
Mayor Whitmire was right to condemn Perkins’ remarks as “deeply inappropriate.” Dropping her from the Houston Food Insecurity Board was the bare minimum. But the deeper problem is a culture that rewards cruelty masquerading as virtue. Social media has made it easy to gin up outrage for a few cheap likes — even when it means demeaning innocent victims who can’t defend themselves.
Grief is grief. Racism is racism. Neither changes shape because of who the target is. If we excuse this twisted logic — that some lives deserve less sympathy because of their skin color — then we are feeding the same hate we claim to oppose.
Basic decency demands a line we do not cross: you don’t exploit dead children to score ideological points. That should not be partisan. It should not be controversial. It should just be human.
