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Houston Mayor Ousts Ex-Official Over Racial Remarks on Flood-Stricken Camp Mystic

Search teams continue seeking 12 people unaccounted for after Hill Country floods claimed 59 lives

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Sade Perkins was slammed for her video on flood-hit Camp Mystic
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Overview

  • Mayor John Whitmire said he will not reappoint Sade Perkins to the Houston Food Insecurity Board and has moved to remove her permanently following her comments
  • Perkins posted a TikTok video describing Camp Mystic as a “whites-only” Christian girls’ camp and accusing media of ignoring missing Hispanic children
  • At least 59 people, including 21 children, have died in the Texas Hill Country floods since early July
  • Eleven campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic remain missing along the Guadalupe River
  • Camp Mystic is a private all-girls Christian summer camp founded in 1926 north of Kerrville, Texas