By now, you may have heard the name Shiloh Hendrix. Up until last week, no one outside of her friends and personal acquaintances knew she existed. Now she is at the center of one of the more intense social media controversies that we’ve seen in recent years.
It all began in the late afternoon on April 28 when the woman we now know as Shiloh Hendrix took her young child to a park in Rochester, Minnesota. At some point, a black child — reportedly five years old — tried to steal something from her diaper bag. Shiloh apparently responded in anger, and, as the story goes, she called the boy the “n-word.” A man named Sharmake Omar — a Somali immigrant, and not the boy’s father — allegedly witnessed this altercation and decided to pull out his phone.
The resulting video has gone extremely viral across every major social media platform. Here it…
