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#hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
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#hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/30427294-story

ETA: (sorry, misstroke caused this to go through without any context)

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/30427294-story
http://womanista.com/2015/10/06/man-gets...rkers-3-y/
ATLANTA - A swirl of controversy over a Facebook post and its accompanying racially-charged comments have led to an Atlanta man's job termination.

Gerod Roth, who is white, was fired from the Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta last week after posting a picture with his co-worker's African-American child to the social media site. Roth's Facebook friends made insulting and racist remarks to the picture that has since gone viral.

“I just really feel upset, not only with myself, but also the character that was based off the comments that my friends had made. Cayden has been victimized but I have been targeted,” Roth said.

Photo Georgia Man Loses Job, Upsets Mother after Facebook Post
The post has since been deleted from Facebook. But Sydney Shelton, the mother of 3-year-old Cayden Jenkins, said she was broken-hearted to see people calling her child “Kunta Kinte” and saying they didn't know Roth was a “slave owner.” Shelton is a single mother and brings Cayden to her job after school. She told FOX 5 she was unaware that Roth took a picture with her son.

ETA: I'm pretty glad he's gone, but I'm not completely clear as to why, yet.

Did he post anything racist on his own, or was is entirely his FB friends? I don't even know 90% of my FB friends in person. They are there for gaming partnerships. That's how many FB games work. But then, I can delete said friends at any time. So....I just don't know.

Somebody in comments posted about taking a pic with a minor who isn't his own kid. I'm sure pst a point that can be a liability. But a friends' kid? Maybe this woman never returned his friendship. I've had that happen quite bit.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
How absolutely awful, he should be sorry - something like that is never funny and only cruel and racist.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
This is more than just posting a picture to FB. He and all posters appear to be racists. Appears they may all be running for cover.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
I don't understand why the guy who posted the picture is being called a racist. He didn't say anything racist; it was all his FB friends doing it.

I really don't get why we was fired either. Sure, he took a picture with a friend's kid and posted it publicly, but that, in and of itself, shouldn't be a big deal. Why is he being accused of racism and fired? Why didn't the mom just ask him to take the picture down? I think everyone is being far too sensitive here. Even if the guy is a racist, there's nothing indicating that in the story.

It looks to me like the company lets employees bring their kids to work, and it gets annoying, so the guy posted a picture to illustrate that, which is backed up by his one comment (not racist, IMO): "he was feral".
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
Well, well - posting random sh*t on Facebook bit someone on the a**e. Good.

Personally - I've stayed away from FB since I realized it's a cross between classholes.com and a slide show of somebody's holiday pictures. This fad can't die out too quickly, as far as I'm concerned.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize all he did was post a picture. Obviously that's ridiculous to accuse him of racism and fire him for that. That makes no sense.

I wonder what his motives actually were.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why calling the kid "Kunta Kinte" is offensive. I've seen Roots, and, for his situation (a slave trying to stay alive in a horrific situation thousands of miles from one's family), Kunta Kinte was pretty badass. It could be the whole renaming thing is a very sensitive issue with the black community.

Also, I've heard of similar situations to this, where pedophiles go through parents' Facebook albums, post pictures of kids they find attractive to other websites, and post lewd comments about them. That is simply disturbing, but posting racist comments on what is meant to be a simple photo on Facebook (and on the original post, no less) is 31 flavors of disgusting.
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(October 6, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why calling the kid "Kunta Kinte" is offensive. I've seen Roots, and, for his situation (a slave trying to stay alive in a horrific situation thousands of miles from one's family), Kunta Kinte was pretty badass. It could be the whole renaming thing is a very sensitive issue with the black community.

I can imagine it might have something to do with the association to black slavery. Would you like to be reminded at every turn "people that looked like me used to own people that look like you"?

I can't fully grasp how a black person feels about that, but I imagine if I were in their shoes, I'd be pretty fucking honked off about it.
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RE: #hisnameiscayden (black child mocked on FB)
OK, consider the article the story of the day. The dummy did something at work that got him fired. So the question is are you smart enough to learn from his experience or will you do the same thing and get fired as well?
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