Recovery efforts are still underway in the Texas Hill Country after the major Fourth of July flash floods that killed over 90 people, including dozens of children and staffers at an all-girls summer camp. Unfortunately, this tragedy is already being used as a political weapon by some.
One former Houston employee faced massive backlash after she suggested that the only reason this tragedy was getting so much attention was because the victims were primarily white.
Sade Perkins, who was appointed by the late former Mayor Sylvester Turner, posted a video on TikTok, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, claiming that "Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls’ Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian, they don’t have a token Black person, it is an all-white, whites-only conservative Christian camp."
Perkins is a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, whose term expired. Following these comments, Mayor John Whitmire’s office confirmed to Fox News Digital that she would not be reappointed to the board.
Former City Councilman Greg Travis also called out the comments, saying, "To say it means you have to be thinking it, and I wouldn’t even think that on any level."
He also criticized numerous other left-leaning X users across the country who have tried to use this tragedy as an opportunity to attack the Trump administration. He said, "I don’t care whether you’re Republican or Democrat, I don’t care whether you’re white or Black. The fact of the matter is, this is a tragedy and should never be politicized."
Despite those trying to score political points off the flood, there has also been a lot of compassion shown to the Lone Star State. Travis pointed out, "I see a lot of good people out there too. And they’re grieving even though they didn’t have a daughter at the camp, even though they didn’t have a loved one perish. And that gives me hope."