Racist Facebook users relentlessly mocked a 3-year-old black child — then the internet struck back

Internet trolls rarely make sense but they are usually tucked away to the dark corners of comment sections or pass themselves off as eggs on Twitter. But now we've reached the juncture when racist internet trolls are so shameless that they freely use their Facebook profiles and full names to spout their disgusting nonsense. That was the case when a defenseless and rather adorable three-year-old boy became the center of racist and abusive Facebook comments after a white Georgia man decided to sneak a selfie with the child and post it to his page for all his trollish friends to lampoon, implying that the child was a slave and referring to him as “sambo.” Zellie Imani of the Atlanta Black Star first reported on the Facebook post by Geris Hilton -- real name Gerod Roth -- and the ensuing backlash: “I’ll feed you, but first let me take a selfie,” wrote one of Hilton's Facebook friends. “I didn’t know you were a slave owner,” wrote a commenter named Emily Irene Red. "Send him back dude those f--kers are expensive," another Facebook user, by the name of Dylan Kleeman, reportedly wrote. Commenter Tim Zheng described the young child as "feral." But before long, Black Twitter (it's a thing -- the LA Times has even dedicated a reporter to it) got a hold of Hilton's post and proceeded with swift social media justice: https://twitter.com/DavidGrapeJuice/s...
help me find out their facebook addresses or any info at all...THIS is why I am what I am... Posted by G Devan Smith on Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Published on October 05, 2015 15:59
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