We are done. I wont be coming to your graduation. Nor will I pay for your college.’ – Anna’s father told her that she was ‘dead’ to him after she attended prom with a black student. (Photos © Phillip Freeman and Anna Hayes/via Twitter/Reg) |
Phillip
Freeman and Anna Hayes, from Lake Village, Ark., attended their school prom
last week. Anna’s father didn’t approve of her attending
with a black student, and subsequently went on a racist tirade after
seeing social media photos of the event. “We are done. I wont be coming to your
graduation. Nor will I pay for your college. Go live with the n***ers,” he
begins in a text message.
“I went to prom with a black guy
so that’s a problem? Racist much,” Anna responded.
“Yes I am,” he admitted. “Your dead to me.”
The verbal abuse gets worse and
he even refers to Anna’s black friend as “subhuman.”
Anna told
BuzzFeed in an interview that her father had warned her about dating a black
guy, “He has told me that if I ever dated a black guy that I will and would be
dead to him,” “I stood my ground for what I believe in. Anna said
Anna shared
the messages with Phillip, who subsequently posted them on Facebook.
The photos
have since gone viral, with many reacting in disgust at her father’s reaction:
” I cannot believe someone would
cut off there own daughter just bc they went to prom with a person of different
race,” one woman commented. “This really upsets me.”
“People tend not to see racism
actually exist until it affects them, hence all the ‘I can’t believe we’re
still going through this’ post.”
“I have legitimately never heard
someone, outside of a documentary; refer to a different race as subhuman.
#heartbroken”
In a Twitter note, Anna
requested that people not contact her father’s current or ex-wife. She stated
that the whole point of her post was to show that sadly, in 2017, racism is
still around — but hopefully people will see these messages and have a change
of heart.
@Og__Regg I hope this clears
some of this up. pic.twitter.com/Q6ZKmLjAw0
— Anna
(@anna_m_hayes) May 2, 2017
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