Woman who reportedly hurled a racist slur at a Black child in a viral video has raised over $600,000 in donations for herself

A White woman who reportedly hurled a racist slur at a Black child has raised over $600,000 in donations for herself on a fundraising page.

Minnesota woman reportedly throws racist slur at Black child

Video of the Minnesota woman identified as Shiloh Hendrix, began circulating on social media after she allegedly called the 5-year-old the n-word on a playground in Rochester on Monday, April 28, according to NBC News.

The man recording the video, identified as Sharmake Omar, told the news outlet that he knows the boy and his family, and the child is on the autism spectrum.

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmr6vpOXnA

In the video, Omar can be heard confronting Hendrix, who is seemingly holding her own child, after she allegedly used the slur. Hendrix, who uses the n-word several times in this video, exclaims, “Mind your f—— own business,” and then claims that the 5-year-old child “took my son’s stuff.”

As Omar asks Hendrix if she thinks that warrants calling “a little child” the n-word, she replies, “If that’s what he’s going to act like.”

Fundraiser

After the video went viral, Hendrix set up a fundraising page for herself, which she titled “Help Me Protect My Family,” on GiveSendGo. She claimed in the page’s description that she is now in a “dire situation.”

“I recently had a kid steal from my 18-month-old son’s diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was,” Hendrix wrote, then claiming that members of her family are “being attacked” and her personal information, including her address and phone number, has been leaked.

She ended the message by asking for funds “to assist in protecting my family” and potentially “relocate.”

Hendrix’s fundraising goal was originally set for $50,000, but it has since been increased to $1 million after that initial amount was reached, local news outlet KIMT3 reported. The fundraiser has raised over $600,000 as of Sunday, May 4.

The GiveSendGo page was inundated with people expressing racist beliefs and sympathies in public notes that accompanied their donations, which prompted the crowdfunding service to close the comments section, according to The Washington Post.

In a statement to the outlet, Jacob Wells, the founder and chief executive of GiveSendGo, said the company “does not endorse or condone the personal views or actions of individual campaign organizers or their supporters, nor do we control the motivations of donors.”