We’re tired. We’re enraged. We’re unsurprised. And we are done pretending otherwise.
A white woman called a 5-year-old Black autistic child a nigger. Not behind closed doors. Not in a private meltdown. But in a public park, on camera, with her whole chest.
And then? She monetized it.
$600,000 raised—not despite her racism, but because of it.
Crystal Clear here: this country didn’t punish her. It paid her.
This isn’t about one hateful woman in Minnesota. This is about the machine that keeps rewarding white violence when it’s performed publicly, loudly, and unapologetically—especially when it targets Black children.
This is not “cancel culture.” This is cash culture. White grievance as GoFundMe campaign.
We are not here to weep for Shiloh Hendrix.
We are here to name the truth: that Black children are never allowed to simply be children.
They are feared, criminalized, racialized, and othered before they can even spell their own names.
That child was not just insulted.
He was dehumanized. Labeled. Reduced.
And then the people around him-the ones with money and malice—said, “Yes. We agree.”
They opened their wallets to co-sign a slur.
But let’s say this clearly:
We don’t need to explain our humanity anymore.
We don’t need to make them understand why this was wrong.
We don’t need to forgive it, excuse it, or find nuance in a hard “nigger” shouted at a child.
We need to protect our children.
We need to call this what it is: white supremacy crowd-sourcing itself in public.
And we need to stop wringing our hands and start defending our future.
Because they don’t get to decide our worth.
They never did.
And every time they throw money at hate, we throw a crown on our babies’ heads and remind them:
You are not what they called you. You are what we name you, loved, whole, brilliant, and Black.
That’s the work. That’s the response. That’s the strategy.
i saw on a recent podcast where eddie was talking to [who was it now?]..[looks up] Wajahat Ali [on the left hook]where he told eddie that many of the black american women who uphold the democratic party where of the opinion of "no more" when it comes to the voting habits of white americans...i can certainly see the appeal considering this event....but the real sad part is that [as eddie said are in the same boat,you sink or stay afloat together but its so hard to work together ,when one side apparently just hates the other] i just dont know the answers anymore..perhaps thats why we are here[on this podcast/letters]..to hear the hope eddie brings....i dont know where he gets his hope from thou? whatever the source of that hope..lets hope its source is everrefilling [sighs] for this is not a short struggle[again]..and i can kinda see why it would drive such figures as baldwin, almost insane :(
These women have a history - past and present - of hateful, racist behavior against children and adults. When caught, there is the contrived tearful apology and the litany of excuses, but then the other racists rally around and excuse and apparently "pay them". Problem solved! Or is it? SMH!
Hearing of this incident, reading of it in 2025 print vindicates though leaves me dismayed that from 1950 or before to 2025 NOT A DAMN THING HAS CHANGED 💔.
From Ronald Reagan was the first time I heard america first and make america great again.
I had written a comment of what "make amerikkka great again" meant to me. I expressed how in 2025 America 🇺🇸 was on a road of getting better with inclusions and acceptance but had a long way into the future to measure it as being great. "That it has NEVER been great".
I posed the questions in my comments was it great during Jim Crow or The Trail of Tears?. Was it great during the Chinese Exclusion Act or Japanese Internment?. Was it great during the first Mexican expulsion or Take over of Puerto Rico?.
For America to be great (in the mind and eyes of some citizens) someone different other than those seized power was a victim someone suffered abuses, grief, torment, misogyny, discrimination, intolerance and ugly speech towards them. To hate and or hurt another is - has been the American way 🤔
I spoke of the lived experiences of my community being harassed, being assaulted, killed and profiled by the police. Also mentioning the laws, contract covenants, practices, policies and procedures of disenfranchisement, rebuke, hostility placed as a hinderance and to impose defeat.
A man replied to my comment that I : (that lady is a nut) NY has other problems and she making waves of nonsense - something to that effect was his judgment of me for speaking on my lived experiences and of how going back to ANY part of America's history bore little or less greatness into the lives of people who wore my melanin tones.
I wonder if Jane Elliot posed the question to him "would he want to walk in the life of a melanin tone person?"
Would he accept that challenge or opportunity?. Would he take it with glee?.
Some to most melonotic persons say they don't want change for fears... fears that persons of African ancestry will do to the melonotic what was done to them by taking revenge.
Persons of African ancestry don't want revenge on anyone because what we know and believe is that what you put out in the universe comes back to you; if you dont curse yourself you curse your kin in your next generations. The melonotic are not worth the time nor trouble. We have always just want to be left alone to live our lives and thrive in our culture, our foods, music, our arts and our expression of joys with life. (we know who we are, we have excellence; talent; and achievements thats one of the reason djt is jealous of Obama or wants to erase the African part from the American history with his story/fantasy.
Some don't want to let go of a old fantasy, an imposed status quo and are comfortable being oblivious or silently complicit to the abuses, disenfranchisement, and egregious misuse of melinated persons.
It's been comfortable on them being given/and having a privilege, an entitlement or elitism brokered on the false premise of a skin tone superiority feed to their egos so many decades ago. ( because in those times like now there were more poor or nearly poor melonotic and melanated ) than there were of the ultra rich and the land owners [rich millionaires]
Today by taking advantage of the masses and djt manipulation of the stock market *shorting it by tariff outcry then saying its a good time to buy - from then till now in 2025 they're [billionaires] just as it's happened, all before in different eras. History is ON THE BRINK of repeating itself.
Content of character, and the lack thereof.. it's a drug to them, an internal evil spirit that's attached itself, and like magic with child on hip it becomes a reckless lump of verbal flesh a human manikin that was paid and supported by the other manikins of like spirit, just look and listen to the national leadership. Permission has been given, and so we devolve.
"What white people have to do, is try and find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first place, because I'm not a nigger, I'm a man, but if you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it."--James Baldwin
Toni: But don't you understand that the people who do this thing, who practice racism, are bereft -- that there's something distorted about the psyche? It's a huge waste, and it's a corruption and a distortion. It's a profound neurosis that nobody examines for what it is. It feels crazy, it is crazy, and it leaves -- it has just as much of a deleterious effect on white people, and possibly equal, as it does black people.
I always knew that I had the moral high ground, all my life. I always thought those people who said that I couldn't come in the drug store and that I had to sit in these funny places or I couldn't go in the park --
Charlie: You felt morally superior to them?
Toni: I did. I thought they knew that I knew that they were inferior to me, morally. I always thought that, and my parents always thought that.
But if the racist white person -- I don't mean the person who is examining his consciousness and so on -- doesn't understand that he or she is also a race; it's also constructed, it's also made, and it also has some kind of serviceability; but when you take it away, if I take your race away, and there you are, all strung out, and all you got is your little self. And what is that? What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong, still smart? Do you still like yourself?
I mean, these are the questions -- I mean, yes, part of it is still the victim, how terrible it is for black people. I'm not a victim; I refuse to be one.
Charlie: And the victim is the other person, who's morally inferior.
Toni: That's a serious question. If you can only be tall, because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it; take me out of it.
I've come to believe the brokenness in some of them from the barbarism of Europe is still locked in their DNA some lack empathy humanity even sensibility. (those few are unlike other humans)
Here again is fine example of Amerika at its lowest. Donald Trump is 100% responsible. The Nazi in the Whitehouse is releasing his deranged dogs. We should all step it up and defend our fellow citizens. See something, say something. Speak up speak out! Fight back and for Gods sake... be safe!
The racism has always been there. The white race and our ingrained culture of oppression and racism are responsible. DT gave it permission to be expressed even more openly again.
It’s not often that I say that drumpf isn’t responsible for horrendous things but in the case I believe he is not. He took advantage of their hate. He used it to get richer, more famous and elected. The truth be told, this is who America has always been (certainly not everyone) they (what we call maga today) have been seething since the 60s. They have been quietly enraged since affirmative action when they had to compete fairly with people they viewed and still view as beneath them. If you live in or near any major blue city surrounded by red hell you know this is the case. I suppose that many people who live in other areas just haven’t seen what black people have gone through their entire lives. That said, I found myself shocked by the overwhelming number of people who whole heartedly support him, in places where very few minorities live. Look at the maps from the elections and you will see that even in blue states, the rural areas are red. America has a sickness; I’m not sure it will be cured. America will either survive this or implode. It is incumbent on people like you who are awake now and part of the resistance because minorities do not have the numbers to save the country. Thank you for that.
Dear Eddie. It's always a good thing when I read your words of clarity that cut through the bullshit and set in its place the words of truth. I've learned so much from you, Eddie. I also watch you on Deadline Whitehouse, and hear your words of truth there, in what ever conversation is happening, and I learn some more from you. I'm a 73 year old Canadian woman who's never had a relationship with someone of color, not because I refused it, but because it's so rare to occur here on the prairies of Alberta. Lately, I've paid close attention to the idea of what being black or coloured must feel like, and how the distant past still sticks to these people by no fault of their own. Thank you for opening my eyes and my heart to the 'history' these poor, dear people live, day in and day out. I know they don't need my sympathies, but I do give them my growing understanding of their past, their present and their possible future that they live and will continue to live. Kudos again Eddie for continuing to further open my 'aperture'.
I'm 60+ and unfortunately the older I get the worst I see in some melonotic Americans.
In my childhood my auntie of Muslim faith would say they're so hateful it breaks my heart those white devils.
I'd think to myself auntie is overreacting but so sad, today 2025 I can see that some souls are severely broken or just devils and the light can't come in.
There is good and bad in ALL nations people, cultures, ethnicities, genders, economic stations so if able maybe a kindness toward them will show them the world is not that scary that they have to be on guard hurting everyone or trying to behave in a imperialist or colonizing way of wanting to regulate another person like Karen's do; who are you? where you going? why you here? what you want? Show me / tell me where you going?
The BS that one has to shower off from daily existence in this skin is phenomenal.
Watching the protesters day in and day out made me so proud to be an American. I was feeling weary that at my age boycotting, protesting, calling officials etc still had to be done yet again - I cried lord when will the struggles end.
One of the biggest teaching of certainly my grandmothers was "treat people as how you wish to be treated"...and i cant understand those that are so quick to hate others just for colour of their skin,or position or status....its certainly a point that their own grandmothers were not so understanding or kind to them?[or perhaps they just were not listening?]...i sometimes understand the wish for such peoples to get their life savings "burnt" down in the forecoming trade recession..except for the fact, the innocent will be swept into it, as well as the guilty..its only that ,keeps me from raging at humankind :(
Omg, this is the first I have heard of this! I am so very sorry for that little boy. It is so embarrassing to be white in this country. Every day there is another shocking thing that I would never dream would happen, or be said.
Thx Eddie, Again Thx..peradventure, someone seems to be attempting to Steal the Mantle, that of the 'prince of the air' all for themselves, as in that t.v. show:: the plane, the plane,, well now the parade, the parade, in my disgust, I digress. so depressing,Thx Sir Eddie for the Lift up. Disheartening Days like this from the leadership never imagined.
No, we’re not shocked.
We’re tired. We’re enraged. We’re unsurprised. And we are done pretending otherwise.
A white woman called a 5-year-old Black autistic child a nigger. Not behind closed doors. Not in a private meltdown. But in a public park, on camera, with her whole chest.
And then? She monetized it.
$600,000 raised—not despite her racism, but because of it.
Crystal Clear here: this country didn’t punish her. It paid her.
This isn’t about one hateful woman in Minnesota. This is about the machine that keeps rewarding white violence when it’s performed publicly, loudly, and unapologetically—especially when it targets Black children.
This is not “cancel culture.” This is cash culture. White grievance as GoFundMe campaign.
We are not here to weep for Shiloh Hendrix.
We are here to name the truth: that Black children are never allowed to simply be children.
They are feared, criminalized, racialized, and othered before they can even spell their own names.
That child was not just insulted.
He was dehumanized. Labeled. Reduced.
And then the people around him-the ones with money and malice—said, “Yes. We agree.”
They opened their wallets to co-sign a slur.
But let’s say this clearly:
We don’t need to explain our humanity anymore.
We don’t need to make them understand why this was wrong.
We don’t need to forgive it, excuse it, or find nuance in a hard “nigger” shouted at a child.
We need to protect our children.
We need to call this what it is: white supremacy crowd-sourcing itself in public.
And we need to stop wringing our hands and start defending our future.
Because they don’t get to decide our worth.
They never did.
And every time they throw money at hate, we throw a crown on our babies’ heads and remind them:
You are not what they called you. You are what we name you, loved, whole, brilliant, and Black.
That’s the work. That’s the response. That’s the strategy.
i saw on a recent podcast where eddie was talking to [who was it now?]..[looks up] Wajahat Ali [on the left hook]where he told eddie that many of the black american women who uphold the democratic party where of the opinion of "no more" when it comes to the voting habits of white americans...i can certainly see the appeal considering this event....but the real sad part is that [as eddie said are in the same boat,you sink or stay afloat together but its so hard to work together ,when one side apparently just hates the other] i just dont know the answers anymore..perhaps thats why we are here[on this podcast/letters]..to hear the hope eddie brings....i dont know where he gets his hope from thou? whatever the source of that hope..lets hope its source is everrefilling [sighs] for this is not a short struggle[again]..and i can kinda see why it would drive such figures as baldwin, almost insane :(
These women have a history - past and present - of hateful, racist behavior against children and adults. When caught, there is the contrived tearful apology and the litany of excuses, but then the other racists rally around and excuse and apparently "pay them". Problem solved! Or is it? SMH!
Hearing of this incident, reading of it in 2025 print vindicates though leaves me dismayed that from 1950 or before to 2025 NOT A DAMN THING HAS CHANGED 💔.
From Ronald Reagan was the first time I heard america first and make america great again.
I had written a comment of what "make amerikkka great again" meant to me. I expressed how in 2025 America 🇺🇸 was on a road of getting better with inclusions and acceptance but had a long way into the future to measure it as being great. "That it has NEVER been great".
I posed the questions in my comments was it great during Jim Crow or The Trail of Tears?. Was it great during the Chinese Exclusion Act or Japanese Internment?. Was it great during the first Mexican expulsion or Take over of Puerto Rico?.
For America to be great (in the mind and eyes of some citizens) someone different other than those seized power was a victim someone suffered abuses, grief, torment, misogyny, discrimination, intolerance and ugly speech towards them. To hate and or hurt another is - has been the American way 🤔
I spoke of the lived experiences of my community being harassed, being assaulted, killed and profiled by the police. Also mentioning the laws, contract covenants, practices, policies and procedures of disenfranchisement, rebuke, hostility placed as a hinderance and to impose defeat.
A man replied to my comment that I : (that lady is a nut) NY has other problems and she making waves of nonsense - something to that effect was his judgment of me for speaking on my lived experiences and of how going back to ANY part of America's history bore little or less greatness into the lives of people who wore my melanin tones.
I wonder if Jane Elliot posed the question to him "would he want to walk in the life of a melanin tone person?"
Would he accept that challenge or opportunity?. Would he take it with glee?.
Some to most melonotic persons say they don't want change for fears... fears that persons of African ancestry will do to the melonotic what was done to them by taking revenge.
Persons of African ancestry don't want revenge on anyone because what we know and believe is that what you put out in the universe comes back to you; if you dont curse yourself you curse your kin in your next generations. The melonotic are not worth the time nor trouble. We have always just want to be left alone to live our lives and thrive in our culture, our foods, music, our arts and our expression of joys with life. (we know who we are, we have excellence; talent; and achievements thats one of the reason djt is jealous of Obama or wants to erase the African part from the American history with his story/fantasy.
Some don't want to let go of a old fantasy, an imposed status quo and are comfortable being oblivious or silently complicit to the abuses, disenfranchisement, and egregious misuse of melinated persons.
It's been comfortable on them being given/and having a privilege, an entitlement or elitism brokered on the false premise of a skin tone superiority feed to their egos so many decades ago. ( because in those times like now there were more poor or nearly poor melonotic and melanated ) than there were of the ultra rich and the land owners [rich millionaires]
Today by taking advantage of the masses and djt manipulation of the stock market *shorting it by tariff outcry then saying its a good time to buy - from then till now in 2025 they're [billionaires] just as it's happened, all before in different eras. History is ON THE BRINK of repeating itself.
Content of character, and the lack thereof.. it's a drug to them, an internal evil spirit that's attached itself, and like magic with child on hip it becomes a reckless lump of verbal flesh a human manikin that was paid and supported by the other manikins of like spirit, just look and listen to the national leadership. Permission has been given, and so we devolve.
"What white people have to do, is try and find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first place, because I'm not a nigger, I'm a man, but if you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it."--James Baldwin
Toni Morrison interview with Charlie Rose :
Toni: But don't you understand that the people who do this thing, who practice racism, are bereft -- that there's something distorted about the psyche? It's a huge waste, and it's a corruption and a distortion. It's a profound neurosis that nobody examines for what it is. It feels crazy, it is crazy, and it leaves -- it has just as much of a deleterious effect on white people, and possibly equal, as it does black people.
I always knew that I had the moral high ground, all my life. I always thought those people who said that I couldn't come in the drug store and that I had to sit in these funny places or I couldn't go in the park --
Charlie: You felt morally superior to them?
Toni: I did. I thought they knew that I knew that they were inferior to me, morally. I always thought that, and my parents always thought that.
But if the racist white person -- I don't mean the person who is examining his consciousness and so on -- doesn't understand that he or she is also a race; it's also constructed, it's also made, and it also has some kind of serviceability; but when you take it away, if I take your race away, and there you are, all strung out, and all you got is your little self. And what is that? What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong, still smart? Do you still like yourself?
I mean, these are the questions -- I mean, yes, part of it is still the victim, how terrible it is for black people. I'm not a victim; I refuse to be one.
Charlie: And the victim is the other person, who's morally inferior.
Toni: That's a serious question. If you can only be tall, because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it; take me out of it.
Charlie: Then give white people some free advice.
Toni: They're all in my books.
I immediately thought of this when I read Eddie's opinion. This is part of the psyche that they are unwilling to face.
I've come to believe the brokenness in some of them from the barbarism of Europe is still locked in their DNA some lack empathy humanity even sensibility. (those few are unlike other humans)
Thank you for this!
Thank you for this. Words fail me.
Eddie, I needed to hear this today. That woman really brought me down. Thank you.
"Place a crown above that baby’s head. Let them know that the problem is not them. It never was about them." ❤️
Dr. Eddie,
Sending lots of prayers and hugs your way!
We live in a world filled with hate and fear , but there is lots of love if we continue to look for it!
Well written..thank you
Here again is fine example of Amerika at its lowest. Donald Trump is 100% responsible. The Nazi in the Whitehouse is releasing his deranged dogs. We should all step it up and defend our fellow citizens. See something, say something. Speak up speak out! Fight back and for Gods sake... be safe!
The racism has always been there. The white race and our ingrained culture of oppression and racism are responsible. DT gave it permission to be expressed even more openly again.
It’s not often that I say that drumpf isn’t responsible for horrendous things but in the case I believe he is not. He took advantage of their hate. He used it to get richer, more famous and elected. The truth be told, this is who America has always been (certainly not everyone) they (what we call maga today) have been seething since the 60s. They have been quietly enraged since affirmative action when they had to compete fairly with people they viewed and still view as beneath them. If you live in or near any major blue city surrounded by red hell you know this is the case. I suppose that many people who live in other areas just haven’t seen what black people have gone through their entire lives. That said, I found myself shocked by the overwhelming number of people who whole heartedly support him, in places where very few minorities live. Look at the maps from the elections and you will see that even in blue states, the rural areas are red. America has a sickness; I’m not sure it will be cured. America will either survive this or implode. It is incumbent on people like you who are awake now and part of the resistance because minorities do not have the numbers to save the country. Thank you for that.
Dear Eddie. It's always a good thing when I read your words of clarity that cut through the bullshit and set in its place the words of truth. I've learned so much from you, Eddie. I also watch you on Deadline Whitehouse, and hear your words of truth there, in what ever conversation is happening, and I learn some more from you. I'm a 73 year old Canadian woman who's never had a relationship with someone of color, not because I refused it, but because it's so rare to occur here on the prairies of Alberta. Lately, I've paid close attention to the idea of what being black or coloured must feel like, and how the distant past still sticks to these people by no fault of their own. Thank you for opening my eyes and my heart to the 'history' these poor, dear people live, day in and day out. I know they don't need my sympathies, but I do give them my growing understanding of their past, their present and their possible future that they live and will continue to live. Kudos again Eddie for continuing to further open my 'aperture'.
I'm 60+ and unfortunately the older I get the worst I see in some melonotic Americans.
In my childhood my auntie of Muslim faith would say they're so hateful it breaks my heart those white devils.
I'd think to myself auntie is overreacting but so sad, today 2025 I can see that some souls are severely broken or just devils and the light can't come in.
There is good and bad in ALL nations people, cultures, ethnicities, genders, economic stations so if able maybe a kindness toward them will show them the world is not that scary that they have to be on guard hurting everyone or trying to behave in a imperialist or colonizing way of wanting to regulate another person like Karen's do; who are you? where you going? why you here? what you want? Show me / tell me where you going?
The BS that one has to shower off from daily existence in this skin is phenomenal.
Watching the protesters day in and day out made me so proud to be an American. I was feeling weary that at my age boycotting, protesting, calling officials etc still had to be done yet again - I cried lord when will the struggles end.
One of the biggest teaching of certainly my grandmothers was "treat people as how you wish to be treated"...and i cant understand those that are so quick to hate others just for colour of their skin,or position or status....its certainly a point that their own grandmothers were not so understanding or kind to them?[or perhaps they just were not listening?]...i sometimes understand the wish for such peoples to get their life savings "burnt" down in the forecoming trade recession..except for the fact, the innocent will be swept into it, as well as the guilty..its only that ,keeps me from raging at humankind :(
Omg, this is the first I have heard of this! I am so very sorry for that little boy. It is so embarrassing to be white in this country. Every day there is another shocking thing that I would never dream would happen, or be said.
Unless and until racism is extremely cost prohibitive, it will continue. Full Stop. All of the apologies and excuses are worthless.
Thank you, Eddie. Our world is so much better with you in it. 🙏
Well said. Just when I/we needed it most.
P.S. already stole the roll of the great accuser of the brethren. Guess who. a chuckle..
Thx Eddie, Again Thx..peradventure, someone seems to be attempting to Steal the Mantle, that of the 'prince of the air' all for themselves, as in that t.v. show:: the plane, the plane,, well now the parade, the parade, in my disgust, I digress. so depressing,Thx Sir Eddie for the Lift up. Disheartening Days like this from the leadership never imagined.