Aunt Jemima's nephew, now a pancake.
Aunt Jemima's nephew, now a pancake.
The father of a Missouri teen who died after plunging from an Orlando amusement park ride in March said his son’s death is being “swept under the rug” by park operators because he is black.
Speaking at a press conference in front of the Free Fall attraction at ICON Park Monday, Yarnell Sampson said his family has not been treated respectfully in the wake of his passing.
“I don’t want to use the race thing,” he said. “But I believe that because my son is a black young man he is getting treated like this. I believe it was a European child it would have been different.”
I don't want to use the race thing but I'm going to use the race thing. Forget about the fact that my son was morbidly obese and I'm a bad parent. No one cares because he was black.
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The father of a Missouri teen who died after plunging from an Orlando amusement park ride in March said his son’s death is being “swept under the rug” by park operators because he is black.
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Speaking at a press conference in front of the Free Fall attraction at ICON Park Monday, Yarnell Sampson said his family has not been treated respectfully in the wake of his passing.
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“I don’t want to use the race thing,” he said. “But I believe that because my son is a black young man he is getting treated like this. I believe it was a European child it would have been different.”
I don't want to use the race thing but I'm going to use the race thing.
Forget about the fact that my son was morbidly obese and I'm a bad parent. No one cares because he was black.
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