People Who Messed Around and Found Out When Coming For Black Folks
From Karens harassing little kids to white men attacking their own Black neighbors, these folks messed around and found karma quick, fast and a hurry.
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In the past few years, it seems like there’s been an uptick in racists caught on camera. But while many are bold enough to harass Black folks simply minding their business, it doesn’t look like many of these aggressors were ever prepared to get the karma they deserved…
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That’s when karma kicks in! From Karens harassing little kids to racist white men attacking their own neighbors, these folks messed around and found out exactly what happens to folks pulling outwardly racist stunts against Black Americans. Get your popcorn ready for this one.
White Racist Meets Sinkhole
Jah Love, a Black man in North Carolina, was driving near an intersection when he noticed the pavement was quickly sinking. He pulled over and realized a sinkhole was forming as more cars approached it, AOL.com reported. Love did what anyone would think to do: try to warn the approaching vehicles of the hazzard ahead. But when he started waving at one driver in a truck, he didn’t get the reaction he expected. The driver flipped Love off… but then he quickly met his instant karma. The man drove directly into the sinkhole, and thankfully, he was recused to safety. The entire interaction was caught on Facebook Live, and when the driver later approached Love, he dropped the bomb that his offensive reaction was simply because of the color of Love’s skin. “I don’t want to be rude or anything else,” the man began. “But when a fellow of your color jumps out in front of me and starts waving at my truck…”
Adin Ross Loses Brand Deals
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Adding to the never-ending list of white folks who just can’t seem to keep Black women’s names out of their mouths, YouTuber and streamer Adin Ross– who is also a known Trump supporter– found out the hard way after weeks of taunting Megan Thee Stallion, Doechii and Halle Bailey. As we told you before, he spoke to DJ Akademiks saying, “I’m so mad. My PR was finally getting better. I had two deals lined up – same with DDG – lost both of them.” According to him, the brand deals he was set to participate in were axed after his comments about Megan Thee Stallion being shot and Halle Bailey’s ongoing custody battle with rapper and streamer DDG got back to the higher ups.
Houston Fire Fighters Get the Boot
A group of Houston Fire Training Academy cadets circulated racist content in a private group chat on Instagram, we reported. Even though they were initially warned about their terrible behavior, the 12 cadets continued acting recklessly, and they paid the price right before they were set to graduate. Six days before the event, all 12 cadets were terminated. According to reports, the department was tipped off by a fellow cadet in the recent graduating class. The 12 cadets were also required to complete anti-discrimination training.
Neo-Nazis Get Ran Out of Town
When a group of self proclaimed neo-Nazis decided to organize a demonstration in Cincinnati, Ohio, they were met by residents who were determined to put a stop to it all, as we previously reported. The state saw a rise of neo-Nazi demonstrations after President Donald Thump famously repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that migrants were eating people’s pets in Springfield. This time, however, the Nazi protestors picked a Black neighborhood to show up to, and outraged Black residents shut it down. They burned Nazi flags and completely ran the racist group out of the city.
Male Karen Calls the Police, but Was Dead Wrong
A South Asian man was caught on camera harassing a group of Black women in July. In the video, which was posted to Instagram, the man can be seen demanding the women give him the keys to the Airbnb they were staying at. This eventually led to the man slapping one of the women’s phones out of her hand and hell breaking loose. In another clip, one Black woman pushes him after he reportedly attacked her first. Soon, police came to the scene and demanded the parties settle the issue then and there. After the cops threatened jail for assaulting the women, he replied, “I will buy you a new phone, whatever phone you want.” With that, he returned with an envelope full of $1,000 to give to the women in exchange for not pressing charges.
Biracial Brazilian Woman Faces Jail Time
Brazil has the largest Black population of any country outside of Africa, so when one woman continued spewing racist attacks, the federal government made an example out of her, we previously told you. Day McCarthy was found guilty of racism after she called the Black daughter of a white celebrity couple a “monkey” last year. In Brazil, racism is punishable by serious jail time. McCarthy, who is biracial, was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison. Her sentence is the longest ever given out for racism in the country.
Racist Man Harasses Black Neighbors
As we previously reported, Michigan police were called to one neighborhood twice in the same day after Martin Sitto was seen attacking his Black neighbors. The first time they arrived, Sitto was warned to stay away from his neighbors after trespassing and threatening them. Hours later, police returned to the same house following a call about Sitto physically attacking the same people while yelling that the “white race is ending!” He was soon arrested and charged with hate crime using force, assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer, assault and battery and trespassing, according to WDIV. His bond was set at $25,000, and he is not allowed to contact the victims.
Racist Threatens Maxine Waters, and Then…
Back in 2022, Brian Michael Gaherty sent several death threats to Rep. Maxine Waters, we reported. Federal officials stated that “Gaherty made these threats with the intent to impede, intimidate, and interfere with Waters while she was engaged in the performance of her official duties.” He later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and a fine of $10,000.
Corrections Officer Waves Racist Bat
The Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) employee named Brian Davis was featured in a now-deleted Instagram video showing him wearing a Patriots sweatshirt while holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Written on the bat was “n****r beater,” which is expectedly sparking outrage in Pittsburg. Davis reported has worked for ACJ since 2018. He was suspended pending an internal investigation in July.
Karen Siblings Charged with Murder
John Chong Uk Moon, and Cindy Kim, were arrested after being caught on video hurling racial slurs at a couple eating at Panera Bread. The brief but shocking interaction was caught on video and soon went viral on TikTok, according to The Root. Months earlier in February 2025, a 66-year-old man named Cuauhtemoc Garcia was shot and killed while walking on a bike path at a local park. It wasn’t until the racist video went viral, however, that police would connect Moon and Kim to the murder. The siblings were eventually arrested and each charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted second-degree robbery.
Employee Leaves Racist Message on Receipt
A Black family was vacationing in San Francisco when they decided to dine out at Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen, WTVU reported. They ordered their food and waited for it to be ready. That’s when the daughter noticed something was written on their receipt. “We were the only Black people in the restaurant,” said Whitney Washington. She then demanded a refund and an explanation. The cashier allegedly responsible for the racist message denied having knowledge of it, but he was then fired on the spot once word got back to his bosses.
Karen Mother Boards School Bus
It was a normal day for Savannah Bailey. She’d gotten on the school bus as she usually does, but instead of a student getting off at the stop, a parent got on. As we previously reported, the North Carolina woman was later identified as Samantha Spoor. She was reportedly upset after her son told her he had been bullied off the bus. Spoor cursed out all the children on the vehicle before setting her sights on Bailey, who began recording. “Record it for your motherf*****g mama. Send her! F***ing n***er,” the woman yelled before getting off the bus. Authorities eventually got hold of the footage and charged Spoor with trespassing, disorderly conduct and communicating threats.
Bubbles Bring Out a Racist Karen
April Morant, a mother of two, called the police in Florida after she and her kids were attacked by a racist neighbor. The children were reportedly playing in the driveway with bubbles when Ada Anderson approached them and began yelling, we reported. This led to a heated argument with Anderson even spraying bear mace at the family while spewing racial slurs. “She tells us every day, like, an everyday occurrence, every day since we’ve been here, we don’t belong here. And we are monkeys,” Morant told reporters. “And she calls us the N-word. So, it’s always something. So, I know she’s doing whatever she can to make me move,” Anderson was soon arrested on a felony battery charge and bonded out of county jail.
Nico Iamaleava’s Tennessee saga wasn’t the professionalization of college sports—it was a train wreck
Amateurism is dead and professionalism never showed up
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There’s a simple way to describe the complicated current state of affairs in college athlete compensation, most recently highlighted by the Nico Iamaleava saga that led to him leaving Tennessee over a gone-public NIL renegotiation days before the spring transfer portal window opens.
In conversations about the fallout, people are quick to bemoan the “professionalization” of college athletics ostensibly moving toward an NFL model, but in the words of a talent representative in a different part of the entertainment industry, “it’s the death of amateurism but it sure as hell isn’t professional.”
College athletics has progressed from what came before it when even as much as a steak dinner paid for by a booster was treated like a high crime and misdemeanor in the kangaroo court disguised as NCAA governance, but the only thing that seems professional about the enterprise is that players are getting paid in the first place.
Nobody is blameless here in the fallout. Part of growing up is the freedom of choice, but so many believe that comes with the freedom from consequences.
Iamaleava is not a child; he is a somewhat professional athlete who has been compensated handsomely to play college football. He has agency here, and he messed around and found out. It’s unfortunate, but that is the cost of overplaying leverage and it’s an unfortunate business reality we all hope to avoid. The truth is that the business world is full of good actors and bad actors, but it’s also filled with inept ones.
It is unfair to expect a young adult to navigate a situation like this smoothly, which is why more blame must certainly be shouldered by the people in his ear. He obviously got bad advice from those around him, including his father, Nicholaus — whose only public comment to date is calling the reporter who accurately broke the story a “bi7ch” on social media.
Tennessee isn’t blameless, either. The Vols are being applauded in college football personnel circles for standing up to a shakedown attempt, but if Tennessee wants to complain about the Wild West, it is partially the reason it’s so wild in the first place. It was Tennessee’s Attorney General (among others) who sued the NCAA in 2024 to prevent the organization from investigating potential infractions by Tennessee in its initial recruitment of Iamaleava. The organization’s response was to stop investigating all third-party participation in NIL-related activity. If the emperor has no clothes, it is Tennessee which directly contributed to the lack of fabric.
Tennessee moving on from Nico Iamaleava strikes a blow against never-ending NIL negotiations
The NCAA is not blameless, either, and at the heart of all of this for decades upon decades in support of the veil of amateurism definition that they hid behind until they legally could no longer do so. Whether they would investigate and adjudicate this player compensation era effectively is another debate, but it is a fact that they were prevented from doing so.
The NFL has had a collective bargaining agreement since 1968. In college sports, they are building the plane as they fly it. Player
“contracts” are a mess. There are no formal players associations to negotiate basic parameters on behalf of athletes, such as boilerplate contract structure even or common sense rules like when a player can renegotiate with their current school, or how often they can do so, or if it’s even permissible to attempt to negotiate with other schools while you’re still at your original school. There is no salary transparency, leading to word of mouth inflation driving the price for players. There’s even less verification of agent credentials.
That’s just a sampling of what’s missing here. It all amounts to a system that features paperwork-linking parties, but is functionally treated as a perpetual negotiation.
All of this means there will be more Nico Iameleavas. There will be more Jaden Rashadas. There will be more Matthew Slukas. The particulars may be different, but the common thread is clear: unprofessionalism. This is not a market; it’s a patchwork of agreements that aren’t held together by much more than duct tape and spittle. There’s hope that the upcoming House settlement’s approval will help this, but the straight line to professionalization many envision it provides will take many twists and turns as well.
Change is frustratingly incremental and progress is not linear. College sports isn’t professional. At this rate it’s hard to see when it ever really will be.
