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The reverend boyfriend of a former Houston mayoral appointee disavowed her tirade against Camp Mystic following the death of 27 campers and counselors in the catastrophic Texas floods.
SadĂŠ Perkins, a Black woman who was previously appointed as Houston's Food Insecurity Board by former Mayor Sylvester Turner from 2023 to January 2025, gave a racially-motivated response regarding the all-girls Christian camp just hours after the tragedy took place. Colin Bossen, a White man who is senior minister at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, apologized to his congregation over his girlfriend's comments while acknowledging that he never endorsed them to begin with in a statement obtained by the Daily Mail.
âMy partner SadĂŠ Perkins has made comments on social media regarding the horrific flooding that devastated Camp Mystic,â Bossen wrote. âI want to be clear that I disavow her comments.â
âI apologize to my congregation,â he added. âI will continue to work to repair the harm this incident has caused.â
âHer comments have caused harm to many who are experiencing terrible loss and anxiety,â Bossen continued. âHer comments were not in the spirit of the Unitarian Universalist values centered around love that my congregation and I share.âÂ
Perkins shared a video on her private TikTok account claiming that Camp Mystic was a white-only camp.
âI know Iâm going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls' Christian camp. They donât even have a token Asian. They donât have a token Black person. Itâs an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp," she said.
âIf you ainât white you ainât right, you ainât gettinâ in, you ainât goinâ. Period,â Perkins added before insisting that the public wouldn't care if the victims were minorities.
âIf this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage that theyâre getting, no one would give a fâk, and all these white people, the parents of these little girls would be saying things like âthey need to be deported, they shouldnât have been here in the first placeâ and yada yada yada,â Perkins said.
The former Houston mayoral appointee then shared a followup video doubling down on her comments.
âI get that white people are not used to people telling them and calling them out on their racism and telling them about their double standards and how you wouldnât give a damn about other children and how thereâs children in ICE detention right now who yâall donât give two fâks about,â she said. âThereâs no prayers going up for them, but weâre supposed to stop the world and stop everything weâre doing to go and hunt for these little missing white girls.â
A total 27 campers and counselors from the Camp Mystic are confirmed to have died in relation to the catastrophic floods in Texas over the weekend, the Christian girls camp confirmed in a post shared on its website.
"Camp Mystic is grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors following the catastrophic flooding on the Guadalupe river," the statement reads. "Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly.
"We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls.
"We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from community, first responders, and officials at every level.
"We ask for your continued prayers, respect and privacy for each of our families affected. May the Lord continue to wrap His presence around all of us."