Woman Loses Job After Video of Her Yelling 'White Lives Are Better' Goes Viral
She told a 16-year-old protester, "You're just a poor little Black girl with a messed up mind." A Tennessee woman has been fired after a video showing her yelling racist and homophobic comments towards protesters went viral over the weekend.
During a protest sponsored by the New Panther Initiative, a Black Lives Matter group, in Elizabethton, Sonya Holt is filmed yelling, "White lives matter!" and "White lives are better!" She also tells a protester, "You're just a poor little Black girl with a messed up mind." In another clip, Holt is shown berating a protester with homophobic slurs before telling him that he is going to "burn in hell."