White woman fired from her job after telling black protester 'white lives are better'

[SouthernCal_Dem]

A video showing a woman making racist comments on Saturday at a protest in Elizabethton, Tennessee, has garnered hundreds of thousands of views on social media. According to the Johnson City Press, the woman has been identified as Sonya Holt, and she can be seen in the video yelling “white lives matter” and “white lives are better” and making homophobic remarks to protesters.

At one point in the video, Holt tells a Black woman that she is “just a poor little Black girl with a messed up mind.”

A spokesperson at the company where Holt was previously employed said she no longer works there as of Monday morning.

“[Holt’s] remarks were one of the most visual instances of verbal salvos hurled at Black Lives Matter protestors during Saturday’s demonstration, with several referring to protestors as ‘monkeys,’ and another man, seen on the same video as Holt, told protestors ‘we should have kept you (expletive) as slaves.'” the Johnson City Press reports.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/woman-out-of-a-job-after-telling-black-protester-white-lives-are-better-during-racist-tirade-caught-on-video/

[Nevilledog]

1. A spokesperson at the company where Holt was previously employed

Ding ding ding.....we have another winner!

[Hortensis]

2. Good riddance to Bad Loser Sonya Holt.

In all meanings of the word.

to Keith Family Vision Clinic for getting rid of her.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Direct link:

https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Business/2020/07/06/Woman-seen-on-video-making-racist-homophobic-remarks-at-protest-fired-from-job.html

[NurseJackie]

4. Thank you. Raw Story sucks.

Best to give credit where it's due.

[Indykatie]

7. I'm Glad to See I'm Not the Only One Who Avoids RawStory Like the Plague

We have so many stories posted at DU that link to their site. I had computer freezing issues when I use the DU links to RS so I stopped.

[NurseJackie]

8. Yep. They've crashed or frozen my browser too...

... and they "borrow" articles, denying those sites the ad revenue they need.

[royable]

13. Why doesn't DU have a policy to discourage using links to rawstory

if everything rawstory runs is lifted from some other site? I too make a point never to visit it.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

9. You realize that the phrase "avoid it like the plague"...

... does not mean what it used to.

[Lucky Luciano]

19. LOL

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Raw Story is just a clickbait site, and I really wish

people wouldn't link to it. Their headlines also are inclined to be ridiculously and irritatingly tendentious. I also hate MSN, which is clickbaity, infested with popups and hard to read. Please, folks, link to the original article.

[cwydro]

14. I couldn't get the video.

It seemed to be playing other stories, but not that one.

The article was interesting because it said she "was interviewed by a local news station."

Now THAT I'd like to see, though I can't imagine why anyone would give her that platform.

[RockRaven]

5. Say stupid things. Get wrecked.

Womp womp.

[StatGirl]

6. Is someone putting truth serum in the water or something?

What is wrong with these people? Do they think no one sees them?

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. They don't care

trump had emboldened them.

[cwydro]

17. That, and I think intelligence is something they probably can't even spell.

That sick woman looked to me like someone who never advanced from about the age of 8 or 9.

Too damn stupid to even realize that she was going to be famous

[ooky]

18. They're self destructing. They've gone so far right they are

flying right over the edge now.

[George II]

10. As she pulls out her flip phone to make a call!

[smirkymonkey]

12. Ha ha!

Good! Just what she deserves!

I hope she never finds a decent job again. Let her know what it feels like to be poor and out of work.

[Progressive Jones]

15. I hate half of my generation. So sad. nt

[aggiesal]

16. This is unbelievable. It's like they'll never learn. ...

If you can't say "Black Lives Matter", then "All Lives Don't Matter".

It's that simple.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. Carter County, TN.....

From Wiki although somewhat dated but still roughly representative....

As of the census of 2000, there were 56,742 people, 23,486 households, and 16,346 families residing in the county. The population density was 166 people per square mile (64/km²). There were 25,920 housing units at an average density of 76 per square mile (29/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.49% White, 1.00% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other races, and 0.78% from two or more races. 0.89% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

I've known these people and used to understand them but not any more....not after they've drank the Kool Aid.


KY........

[Demovictory9]

22. direct link to the video in twitter

Link to tweet