The former Houston mayoral appointee who lashed out at a flood-devastated Texas girls’ camp for being “white only” has been publicly embarrassed on a fundraising page — where many donors contributed the smallest amounts just to leave angry, critical messages.
Sade Perkins — who criticized Camp Mystic in a poorly timed rant mere hours after a deadly flash flood claimed dozens of lives there last Friday — is ironically praised as “courageous” on the page, which calls for donations to support her “protection, legal aid, and recovery.”
The page explains she needs funds to help her heal from the “reputational and emotional damage she is suffering.”
“Sade Perkins is being unfairly targeted for speaking the truth,” reads the ill-fated Givesendgo fundraiser created by her supporter Marian Hills.
A fundraising page for Sade Perkins was overwhelmed by critics who donated small amounts just to post abusive remarks.
“Sade merely spoke out about racial disparities in emergency response—something many have silently observed but were too afraid to voice.”
The fundraiser aimed to raise $20,000 but had collected less than $400 by Thursday afternoon, much of it from critics donating small amounts just to leave hostile messages.
“One donor who gave $5 angrily wrote, ‘Paid just to say eat sh-t,’” while others also left profanity-laden comments.
“‘For your funeral expenses,’ another $5 donor angrily wrote, while a different critic advised her to ‘get [an] attorney.’
Perkins ignited outrage after attacking the private girls’ camp in Hunt, Texas, where 27 people, including many children, died in floodwaters that have claimed over 100 lives.
“I know I’m going to get canceled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls’ Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian. They don’t have a token Black person. It’s an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp,” Perkins said in a TikTok video.
“If you ain’t white, you ain’t right, you ain’t gettin’ in, you ain’t goin’. Period,” she added on Saturday, as the state’s total death toll from the flooding surpassed 80.
The fundraising page had raised only $394 by Thursday.
“If this were a group of Hispanic girls, this wouldn’t be getting the kind of attention it’s getting. Nobody would care, and all these white people—the parents of these girls—would be saying things like, ‘They need to be deported, they shouldn’t have been here in the first place,’ and so on,” Perkins said.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced he intends to “permanently remove” Perkins from the city’s Food Insecurity Board in response to her inappropriate racial remarks, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday.
Perkins’ term on the board is set to expire in January 2025, according to the city’s website.
