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Houston Official Sparks Outrage After Racist Rant Mocking Missing White Girls Killed in Texas Flood

Sarah Arnold
Sarah Arnold  |  July 07, 2025 6:15 PM

In another unhinged display of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a Houston Food Insecurity Board member thought it was a good idea to mock missing girls who were swept away in the deadly West Texas flood that claimed 59 lives, including 21 children. Rather than expressing genuine concern or offering support to grieving families, the woman chose to politicize a natural disaster, absurdly spewing racist comments. 

Former Houston mayoral appointee Sade Perkins launched into a two-and-a-half-minute tirade criticizing the camp’s “exclusionary” practices, accusing it of fostering a “whites-only enclave”—a statement she made just hours after the tragic loss of several young girls.

"If this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage that they’re getting, no one would give a f*ck, 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 yada yada yada,” she continued. 

Perkins then claimed that if "you ain’t white you ain’t right, you ain’t gettin’ in, you ain’t goin." 

"They want you to get up and look for these girls… while your own family is being deported and locked in concentration camps," she added. 

Houston Mayor John Whitmire stated that Perkins' term officially ended in January and that he has no intention of reappointing her, especially in light of what he described as her "deeply inappropriate comments."

Her video quickly went viral and was widely criticized—and rightly so.

In response to the hate Perkins received, she accused white people of having double standards and being indifferent to the suffering of non-white children, such as those in ICE detention, while demanding intense attention and concern when white girls go missing.

"I get that white people are not used to people telling them and calling them out on their racism and telling them about their double standards and how you wouldn’t give a damn about other children and how there’s children in ICE detention right now who y’all don’t give two f–ks about,” she said. “There’s no prayers going up for them, but we’re supposed to stop the world and stop everything we’re doing to go and hunt for these little missing white girls.”