A Democrat-appointed former Houston city board official has provoked outrage by attacking the Texas girls’ summer camp ravaged by flooding for allegedly being “whites-only, conservative [and] Christian.”
The remarks were made in a now-viral video by Sade Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board.
She made the claims about Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, in a TikTok video this weekend.
Amid the backlash, the office of Houston Mayor John Whitmire confirmed that Perkins posted the video.
She was appointed by former Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, in 2023.
However, her term on the board expired in January 2025.
In her video, Perkins began by predicting that she was “probably gonna get canceled for this.”
“But Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls’ Christian camp,” Perkins continued.
“They don’t even have a token Asian, they don’t have a token black person, it is an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp.”
“If you ain’t white, you ain’t right,” she claimed.
“You ain’t getting in, you ain’t going, period.”
Perkins added, “It’s not to say that we don’t want the girls to be found, whatever girls that are missing… but you best believe, especially in today’s political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls….this would not be getting this type of coverage that they’re getting.
“No one would give a f–k.”
The former appointee claimed that she intended “no shade” for the girls who were missing or killed due to the flood.
Perkins added that she “hope[s] they all get found,” but argued that there was too much sympathy for the child victims and their families.
“They want you to have sympathy for these people,” Perkins said in the video.
“They want 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 to find these people.
“Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members,” she alleged.
“Meanwhile, they’re setting up concentration camps and prisons for your family members,” the Democrat-aligned former official falsely claimed.
“And I need you all to keep that in mind before you all get out there and put on your rain boots and go find these little girls.”
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In a statement, Whitmire’s office said that Perkins would not be reappointed to the board.
The mayor’s office called her comments “deeply inappropriate.”
“The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in a decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing,” the statement from the mayor’s office reads.
“Mayor John Whitmire will not reappoint her and is taking immediate steps to remove her permanently from the board.”
At least 80 deaths have been confirmed from the catastrophic flood as of Sunday.
A large number of those deaths are children.
At least 10 children from Camp Mystic are still missing as the death toll continues to rise.
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