An influencer promoting traditional wife values left Piers Morgan in shock when she defended a white mother accused of using a racial slur towards a five-year-old boy during a playground incident.
On Piers Morgan Uncensored, the host assembled a panel to deliberate on the situation involving Shiloh Hendrix. In Minnesota, Hendrix was caught on video being confronted by a man after allegedly calling a young black boy the racial epithet, claiming the child took a toy from her son’s diaper bag.
Hendrix has not refuted her use of the offensive term and, when confronted by a bystander, stated she would use the slur ‘If that’s what he’s gonna act like.’
She then repeats the slur at the man filming her, and makes an obscene gesture.
But after the video went viral, a growing number of Americans came to Hendrix’s defense – including controversial influencer Lilly Gaddis, who asked her followers to support the Minnesota mom’s online fundraiser, which has now garnered over $700,000 for her family.
On his program Tuesday, Morgan asked Gaddis why she ‘would want to support a white racist – to which she replied, ‘Because I want to support free speech.’
Morgan responded by saying he understands the free speech argument, but argued, ‘You also have to be accountable for what you say.’
At that point, he asked Gaddis whether she would ever use the racial slur – to which she replied ‘Yes’ without hesitation.
‘You would?’ the conservative news host asked, his mouth agape at the answer.
‘Mhm, I do it quite frequently,’ said Gaddis, who was once caught on video using the ‘n-word’ while talking about relationships.
‘You use the N-word quite frequently?’ Morgan repeated, clearly in shock by what he just heard.
‘Why? Other than the fact that you’re a despicable racist. Are you?’ he asked his guest.
‘Some would say I am, I guess, according to the ADL I’m a “white supremacist,” I’m a “neo-Nazi,” Gaddis replied.
Still, Morgan wanted a clear answer – again pressing the influencer on whether she is a racist.
Gaddis, though, seemed unfazed – and said she would ’embrace’ the title ‘if that means helping white people achieve freedom of speech – real freedom of speech.’
She then tried to steer the conversation back to the Minnesota mom and even tried to bring up the case of Karmelo Anthony – a teenager accused of murdering a fellow student during a track meet last month – in her effort to change the subject.
But Morgan continued to fixate on Gaddis’ remarks.
‘Sorry, but just to be clear to me, you just said to me you use the N-word regularly. In what context? Do you use it with black people?’ he asked.
Gaddis then replied that she does ‘if it’s appropriate.’
The answer seemed to just leave Morgan even more stunned.
‘When would it be appropriate to use the N-word? When would it be appropriate?’ he asked – to which Gaddis replied, ‘Any time I feel like it.’
‘So you’re just an unashamed racist?’ he hit out at the influencer, who admitted she is.
‘Do you understand that makes you a despicable human being?’ Morgan asked her.
‘I guess so, I don’t really care,’ Gaddis responded. ‘I mean, why are we not talking about Shiloh Hendrix?’
Stunned, Morgan said she changed the topic of the conversation with her ‘own racism, which is why you’ve supported her in public and why you got all these views.
‘You see no problem shrieking the N-word repeatedly because you yourself are a despicable racist and you just proudly admitted that with a smug grin on your face – which is pretty horrifying, actually, for most people to watch.
‘And shame on you,’ he hit out at the influencer.
‘You’re entitled to do it, and I’m entitled to call you despicable,’ Morgan concluded.
Gaddis has previously defended Hendrix, posting a video to her X account last week, saying the mother’s actions demonstrates ‘whites having enough of it.
‘We’re sick of being bullied in our own country,’ she claimed.
‘This is great,’ she continued.
‘This is white people finally being fed up with this s*** and the fact that we have brown people trying to take away white people’s rights in a white country, when we have the Constitution and freedom of speech and they come from their s*** countries where you can be locked up for hate speech, this is just disgusting.
‘This is everything wrong with immigrants,’ Gaddis argued of the man who filed Hendrix. ‘This is everything wrong with brown people in our f***ing country and this is why we need to kick them all out.’
She then declared that the United States is a ‘white country for white people.
‘These people are not welcome, and I’m glad to see people finally standing up, to stand with her,’ she said of Hendrix, as she asked her supporters to donate to the Minnesota mom’s fundraising page.
On it, Hendrix claims she is raising money to protect her family and relocate after being doxed when the video went viral.
‘My name is Shiloh and I have been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18 month old son’s diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was,’ she writes – again defending her actions.,
Hendrix then claims her ‘family members are being attacked’ in the aftermath of the video, and says her Social Security number has been leaked along with her address and phone number.
She also claimed ‘we have been threatened to the extreme by people online,’ despite her widespread support.
As the fundraiser grew on Friday, Hendrix thanked her supporters, saying she is ‘taking the proper procedures in order to stay safe.’
‘The overwhelming support that my family and myself have received is unbelievable! I’ve never felt so scared, yet reassured in my life. It’s truly a whirlwind of emotions,’ she said.
‘I’m still very frightened, and I don’t think I will feel safe until we can escape completely.’
Meanwhile, the Rochester branch of the NAACP launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the child and his family – aiming to raise funds for legal advocacy and broader social justice efforts.
The campaign for the child and his family has now disabled any more donations, after raising more than $341,000.
