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White Guy Gets Fired From Marketing Job After Posting Racist Selfie With Co-Worker’s Black Son

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Oct 20, 2015 06:13pm EDT

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Mark Andrew

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What’s worse than being a racist? Well, probably being racist to an innocent little child.

This is a story about a white guy named Gerod Roth who took a selfie of himself and his co-worker’s son without even asking for permission. Eventually, he uploaded the photo on Facebook and that’s how things started to take a turn for the worst.

What’s so bad about it, you ask? Well, Roth’s friends started to comment on his picture with 3-year-old Cayden and the words were completely distasteful.

Gerod Roth a.k.a Geris Hilton posted this photo of himself and Cayden on Facebook:

Photo credit: Facebook

The fact that Cayden was black drew a lot of attention among Roth’s social media buddies. The racist jokes and comments were really very offensive.

Some of which said:

“I didn’t know you were a slave owner.”

“Dude where the hell did you get a black kid??”

“Kunta Kinte.”

“But Massuh, I dindu nuffin.”

It’s completely disgusting!

Instead of deleting the comments or telling his friends to stop it though, Roth replied:

“He was feral.”

Such a douchebag!

The post quickly reached Cayden’s mother who gracefully handled the bad situation.

https://twitter.com/IfeJohari/status/650403128429387776

It didn’t take long before Sydney Shelton, Cayden’s mom, was notified about the thread. She was naturally unhappy about it but Instead of retaliating, she decided to post the picture online and used the hashtag #hisnameiscayden.

It proved to be a smart move when the hashtag immediately took the internet by storm as the boy received public support. Roth, on the other hand, deleted the photo but it was too late. His irresponsible action got him fired from his marketing job.