Gerod Roth, who is white, was fired from the Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta last week after posting a picture with his co-worker’s Black child to Facebook.

Gerod’s Facebook friends made insulting and racist remarks to the picture that has since gone viral, Gerod said:

“I just really feel upset, not only with myself, but also the character that was based off the comments that my friends had made. Cayden has been victimized but I have been targeted,”

Some of the comments included:

I didn’t know you were a slave owner. Help feeed this pour child today. But Massuh, I dindu nuffin. I’ll feed you but first let me take a selfie. Pls tell me his name is Toby??? kunta…kunta kinte. Dud where the hell did you get a black kid?? Sambo? Send him back dude those f*ckers are expensive. *takes picture* with your donation of 32.75 you can help save a life. …okay, get out of her kid, I’m tryina’a look good on Facebook. #BlackLivesMatter

The post has since been deleted from Facebook.

In an interview with FOX 5, Gerod says he only made the, “He was feral post”.

“A person said, ‘Oh, you mean to tell me that you just have wild kids running through your office building?’ And that’s when I said ‘he was feral.’ That was interpreted as racist and that, honestly, was not my intention whatsoever.”

But as his friends are so comfortable in sharing such horrific statement with him on a public forum, this obviously isn’t the first time he has entertained such ridiculous language and ideologies.

Sydney Shelton, the mother of 3-year-old Cayden Jenkins, who was in the photo with Gerod, said she was broken-hearted to see people calling her child “Kunta Kinte” and saying they didn’t know Gerod was a “slave owner.” Ms Shelton is a single mother and brings Cayden to her job after school. She told FOX 5 she was unaware that Roth took a picture with her son.

Gerod claims he didn’t think she would mind. Is he serious?…. Continue to the next page to see the video…

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