demeus wrote:
In all this, 2 persons, probably known to the family of the 5 year old, tried to steal money from the NAACP stating that they were the child's parents.
https://www.kttc.com/2025/08/27/two-cla ... mit-theft/This is from local media, not national news. Again, I live in this community and have been watching this. There is more to this story than meets the eye.
If you read the article, the two people charged with theft
were "probably known" to the family. Not the boy's father or mother. the father was in the playground recording the exchange, then defended his son.
Hendrix's appeal on her now successful gofundme (which has become like a lottery win for her) was based on her claims the 5 year old black child stole her smaller/younger son's belongings and may have pushed/touched her son). I imagine she was initially angry but used n-word against the 5 year old who by now was watching from a distance. I think that's when the father started recording her. the father could be heard explaining to Hendrix his son has autism and did not understand what he did. that's when Hendrix went into a tirade of n-words quite clearly knowing what she was doing.
Hendrix also claimed afterward she received death threats from black people online who threatened her and her son. I am not sure if this is a lie or exaggerated but quite clearly her claims hit a chord with white folk who have been funding her relocation.
Her charges under Minnesota law are going to barely be a slap on the wrist but feed into republican fantasies about stand your ground and freedom of speech to use the n-word. It also feed into other myths about the dangers black people pose in neighborhoods and also something parents of autistic kids are all too familiar with.
Back when my daughter was the same age she would behave in manner (she was non-verbal) in public playgrounds that would mostly confuse other children. But regardless of her harmless behaviour I became quite familiar with both stern looks/scowls at me from other parents (why am I not controlling my kid, oh look, a bad parent) and then the inevitable "come here dear" or "lets go home now" (translation: keep away from that weird kid). I remember back in 2009/2010 several parents in Kinder and primary school advise me (as if they were doing me a favour) to move my daughter to a special school.
So I relate to this father's experience, and the fatigue he must be experiencing having to probably deal with other Shiloh Hendrix "types" every day.
when I joined wrong planet way back in 2011 it was one of the big differences I posted about on the parent's forum between being a parent of an kid with Aspergers and being a parent of a kid with autism is the hostility and microaggressions I experienced from other parents whether it be in playgrounds, school or even in play groups organised with parents of kids on the spectrum (yes, sorry about this but parents of aspies were just the same).
Seeing Shiloh Hendrix get money and sympathy for abusing this kid is giving me PTSD.
29 Aug 2025, 4:34 am
