Nothing but dunces, villains and fools in this tale….
1.Unethical catalyst: In Rochester, Minnesota, a state that has gone certifiably nuts, home of the George Floyd Freakout and a government headed by Knucklehead Tim Walz while voters send anti-Semitic Rep.”Fuck you!”Omar to Congress, a woman named Shiloh Hendrix was at the playground at Soldiers Field Park when she found a young black child looking through her 18-month-old son’s diaper bag. The kid is a nascent thief and needs more attentive parenting.
2. First identifiable unethical adult: Hendrix, who upon discovering the invasion of her personal property called the child a “nigger.” That’s signature significance in 2025—indeed at least since the 19th Century. She’s a low-life racist, a blight on society, and deserves to be shunned and reviled. To Hell with her.
3. Next in line among the metaphorical unethical railroad cars on the track: Sharmake Beyle Omar, who used his cell phone to video the scene, and refused to end a confrontation with the vile woman by simply admonishing her for the unforgivable racial slur. He followed her to her car. She still wins the unethical asshole prize in their initial conversation:
He: “Did you call the child the n-word?”
She: “Yeah, what if he acts like one… he took my son’s stuff.”
He: “So you so that gives you the right to call the child the N-word?”
She: “If that’s what he’s gonna act… that’s what he’s gonna act like.”
Points: A. She has the right to call anyone a nigger. In Minnesota, though, I bet a majority of the population believes that “hate speech” is illegal. B. Omar’s objections were appropriate and ethical in that exchange. C. Hendrix then smirkingly gave him an outstretched middle finger. Nice. What a charming woman.
But Omar crossed hard into unethical territory when he posted the video in his social media. Inviting the social media Furies to destroy anyone, even a toxic asshole like Shiloh, is vicious, irresponsible and unfair.
4. Next up in the parade of ugly unethicals, naturally, are the social media creeps and vigilantes Omar deliberately triggered, who behaved exactly as he knew they would. In addition to the cyber-fury unleashed on Hendrix, there are substantial numbers of these, white Americans attacking Omar and the black kid:
Also signature significance.
5. Special mention is also due to the pundits, commentators and social media jerks who pointed to Omar’s previous interaction with the criminal justice system, as if that had any relevance to this episode at all. It doesn’t. That’s the equivalent of an ad hominem attack. Unethical.
6. Then Hendrix had the gall to try to exploit the situation her racist instincts had put her in (with Omar’s assist) by seeking hand-outs from fellow racists and jerks….
7. And it worked, because there are a lot of racists and jerks out there. Anyone who gave a single cent to this awful woman to compensate her for the consequences of her awfulness is an ethics villain, Making America Racist Again. Hendrix has been enriched by almost $300,000 for behaving so badly. In reality, the best way to protect this woman’s family would be to find a responsible, non-racist parent to raise her child, who is fair bet to start a KKK chapter in junior high school.
8. Meanwhile, the debacle is being blamed on the Karmelo Anthony case. Anthony, who is black, is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, who was white, to death during a rain delay at their high school track meet. Anthony has not faced trial yet and claims that he in innocent by reason of self-defense. The online fundraising campaign on his behalf has raised over a half-million dollars. The clear difference between that and Hendrix’s ill-gotten booty: Anthony hasn’t been found guilty of anything yet, and raising money for his defense is not, as some are claiming, the same as rewarding him for murdering a white kid. The accused teen’s family is the object of this fundraising campaign, and it is not inherently endorsing a black kid killing a white kid to show sympathy for his family with a contribution.
9. You can guess the next car on the train: conservative pundits are blaming progressives for making everything about group identity and race as well as Barack Obama for sending U.S. race relations back decades with his insidious racialism. The Left’s pundits blame President Trump and his supporters, because everyone knows they are all racists.
Good job, everybody!
Ethics Alarms 
Do we know how old the black child is? I have searched for that and can’t find it. I’m assuming he is old enough to know better than to take something that doesn’t belong to him, but what if he is a toddler? Namecalling isn’t an appropriate response, regardless.
Five years old, per the Rochester, MN, NAACP.
Apparently at least one of the social media commenters critical of Ms. Hendrix has claimed that the child who rummaged through the Hendrix toddler’s diaper bag was autistic; however, I have not yet seen confirmation of that. If true, that would up the potential age range of children who might be tempted to rummage through a non-sibling’s diaper bag. I have also seen conflicting claims as to whether or not the diaper bag’s rifler’s parents were in the park at the time. (As the parent of a (now-deceased) autistic child, my autistic son would always have had either a parent or his twin brother (once they were teenagers) accompany him to the park to supervise him.)
Meanwhile, the Rochester, MN, NAACP has started a gofundme account to support the Black kid and his family. They say, in part:
“All funds from this campaign will go towards the affected child and family including:
• Legal redress and social justice efforts in support of the child and family.
• Legal advocacy, accountability, and restorative efforts, also in support of the child and family.”
That fund was over $300,00 when I just looked at it a few minutes ago.
I didn’t see the NAACP’s cynical involvement in this: they are officially part of the ethics train wreck. There is no possible legal redress and the “affected child” was not adversely “affected” by mere words. The NAACP is the ideal example of Hoffer’s observation that causes turn into businesses and ultimately rackets.
NAACP Rochester is demanding a thorough punishm . . . erm . . . investigation into this incident along with a life sentence imposed followed by a prosecution, if necessary. Shameless grifters.
jvb
I have a couple of grandchildren who would disagree, and strongly, that the kid was not adversely affected by what you call mere words. Imagine, if you can, a kid approaching teen years being told by a classmate, “I can’t be your friend because you’re black.
“Mere words, my ass!
#7: Boy, that sure makes me feel better about getting up early to work overtime this weekend. It’s nice to know I could have made hundreds to thousands of times more by calling a child a racial slur instead.
OK, I’ll play a bit of Devil’s advocate and say that if you’re going to insult another adult, no term is off limits…the idea of “forbidden words” is next door to thought crime, and a controlling tactic. I believe the courts now rarely even consider “fighting words” as a defense these days.
That being said, unless you’re a vile person, you don’t interact with a child in the same manner as you would with another adult, either physically or verbally. Calling the kid a “little bastard”, or similar, should also be off the table, even if that’s the way you do act around adults (which I wouldn’t advocate, either).
Too many jerks on both sides of this incident.
…which is the very essence of an Ethics Train Wreck.
I just saw all your previous attempts to post this in the spam file. I’m sorry!
I’m pretty certain everyone is aware of the fact that blacks routinely refer to other blacks with that offending term, and no one gives it a second thought. So, what we seem to have is a term in the American lexicon that may or may not be spoken solely depending on the color of one’s skin. In an odd sort of way, that seems pretty racist.
One thing I will note is that there have been credible reports that Anthony’s defense money has been used by his family to upgrade their dwelling (to a McMansion rental) and a new SUV. It gets harder to defend the distinction of the fundraiser with this case given that behavior.
And just to be clear, I believe both fundraisers are unethical at this point.