Racist Post Gets Several People Fired

There is a man who goes by the name of Geris Hilton on Facebook (reportedly not his real name) who used to have a job.

"Hilton" used to work at Polaris Marketing Group, according to AtlantaBlackStar, but his employment status changed after he posted a photo on Facebook Sept. 16.

In the photo, Hilton was taking a selfie at work, alongside a little cute black boy who is the son of one of his now-former co-workers—a dandy woman by the name of Sydney.

All was seemingly fine, until Hilton and his friends started making racist jokes about the photo in the comments section on Facebook, insinuating that the little boy, whose name is Cayden, was a slave, and Hilton the slave master.

The photo has made its way around the Internet. As you guessed it, pink slips are flying and heads are rolling because of the racist shenanigans afoot in the photo's comments section.

Sydney Jade, Cayden's mother, got on social media to thank all of the people who spread the news about the inappropriate photo. She created the hashtag #HisNameIsCayden to make the statement that her little boy is a person and shouldn't be objectified or trivialized as the butt of a racist joke.

"When people hear about him, these are the picture I want them to know about. Not that disturbing image and its comments," Sydney wrote. 

-The Root