Reverend Colin Bossen condemned his own girlfriend on Monday who went on a racially tinged tirade about whiteness in response to the deaths of young campers in Texas.
Sade Perkins, an appointee to Houston’s Food Insecurity Board, lost her position after she raged at Camp Mystic for being a so-called “white-only conservative Christian camp” and claimed that conservative Texans would express little outrage about the children’s deaths if they were Hispanic or black. After she doubled down on her comments, Bossen said that he “disavow[s]” her remarks, according to a statement from the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston’s website.
“My partner Sadé Perkins has made comments on social media regarding the horrific flooding that devastated Camp Mystic,” Bossen said. “I want to be clear that I disavow her comments.”
The reverend further noted that his girlfriend’s remarks “have caused harm to many who are experiencing terrible loss and anxiety.
“I believe strongly that all people have inherent worthiness and dignity,” Bossen continued. “Her comments were not in the spirit of the Unitarian Universalist values centered around love that my congregation and I share. I apologize to my congregation who has experienced harm because of her comments. I will continue to work to repair the harm this incident has caused.”
Joan Waddill, the board president of the Unitarian Universalist church, said that Perkins’ “offensive” remarks “contradict” the values of their church community, according to the church’s website.
“She was not speaking for the church, but only for herself. Indeed, her comments contradict the core values of our church. We are horrified to be associated with these comments,” Waddill said. “We extend a hand to this person to try to help her recognize the insensitivity of her behavior while we extend our other hand and what help we might provide to the families who have been devastated by these deaths.”
The flash flood in Central Texas killed at least 27 campers at Camp Mystic, while 10 remain missing. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes at around 4 a.m. on Friday, which wiped out cabins in the area that were being widely used for the Fourth of July weekend.
Among the victims at Camp Mystic were 8-year-olds Sarah Marsh, Renee Smajstrla and Anna Margaret Bellows, along with 9-year-olds Lila Bonner and Janie Hunt. The youngest campers slept just 225 feet away from the river when it rapidly rose, according to the New York Post.
Just hours after children and counselors perished, Perkins took to TikTok to criticize the camp and attack conservatives.
“Before y’all comment me, before y’all start leaving hate comments on my page about, oh, these are just kids and they don’t know no better, the parents of these children who are choosing — and it is a choice in 2025, it is definitely a freaking choice to go into east goddamn Texas and to make a all-white enclave, exclusionary, just for white people,” Perkins said. “With all the black people in east Texas, with all the Hispanic people in east Texas, somehow, some way, you have carved out an all-white, whites-only enclave in east Texas for your white children. Yeah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that.”
Perkins then claimed that the same people who are rigorously searching for the missing girls are “setting up concentration camps and prisons” for non-white people.
“Once again, this is no shade to the girls, I hope they all get found, but once again, y’all have to understand the climate that we’re living in. They want you to have sympathy for these people,” Perkins said. “They want you to get out of your bed and to come out of your home and to go find these people and to donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members. Meanwhile, they’re setting up concentration camps and prisons for your family members. And I need y’all to keep that in mind before y’all get out there and put on the rain boots and go find these little girls.”
Democrat Houston Mayor John Whitmire immediately condemned Perkins’ comments and took “immediate steps” to remove her from the Food Insecurity Board.
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