Black San Antonio Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is tangling with a lady on-line after she referred to him as a “monkey” in a publish voicing frustration together with his workplace.
The councilman responded by tagging the lady, Trisha Thatcher-Garza, in a Wednesday night Fb publish containing a display screen shot of her remark.
“Referring to me as a monkey is CRAZY lmao,” the District 2 councilman mentioned. “Racist.”
The screenshot was of an earlier Fb publish from Thatcher-Garza the place she complained about an alleged lack of response from McKee-Rodriguez’s workplace.
“I wrote him relating to an 94 yr previous lady on Cactus being exploited and robbed by a household who receives metropolis $$$ to revitalize the Eastside and this monkey mfkr by no means responded nor did anybody from district 2,” she mentioned within the publish.
In his response, McKee-Rodriguez additionally famous that his workplace did reply to Thatcher-Garza’s criticism in 2024 and suggested her to hunt authorized support. He connected a screenshot of his workplace’s reply, which advisable that she attain out to the nonprofit Rio Grande Authorized Help totally free help.
In subsequent feedback, Thatcher-Garza insisted she isn’t racist, including that the 94-year-old lady in query is African American. Thatcher-Garza additionally famous that she has family and friends members who’re Black on San Antonio’s traditionally Black East Facet.
In a publish on her personal Fb profile, Thatcher-Garza additionally added that she calls her youngsters monkeys on a regular basis, including that, to her, the time period isn’t racist however meant to point “a circus, a sideshow.”
A number of individuals responding on-line rejected her clarification.
“You suppose anybody goes to grasp a generally used phrase by racist[s], is being utilized in good religion by you???” Fb consumer Osaze Edebiri fired again. “Frustration a few state of affairs is one factor [sic] how did you not cease and take into consideration how what you mentioned may look to individuals who don’t know your loved ones? (assuming that could be a legitimate argument).”
A girl purporting to be Thatcher’s cousin added gasoline to the dumpster fireplace within the feedback, calling McKee-Rodriguez a “bitch ass piece of shit” and a “low-vibration piece of shit.”
“I’ll slap all you bitchs [sic] behind my cousin and that’s on every part tf,” she added.
The social media firestorm comes amid heightened racial tensions through the Trump administration, and the president himself has often fanned the flames. In February, Trump acquired backlash for posting an AI video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
Following public outcry, the Reality Social publish was later deleted.
U.S. Home Rep. Al Inexperienced, D-Houston, was faraway from Trump’s Feb. 24 State of the Union speech for responding to the video by holding up an indication studying “Black individuals aren’t apes!”
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