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Social Media Strikes Back At Racism With The #KeatonChallenge

Published: Thursday 14th Dec 2017 by David

Heart strings were tugged around the world when a video of a young man named Keaton Jones detailing the bullying he claimed to be facing was placed online by his mother Kimberly.

Keen to support the him, thousands donated to a GoFundMe page launched to offer his family financial support with hopes it would ease his pain and perpetual sorrow.

Then something interesting happened.

Members of the Twitter community Black Twitter did a little digging into the family they had donated close to $70,000 to and discovered that Keaton and his mother came from what appeared to be a family of White Supremacists, and that his father is a member of a prison gang named the Aryan Circle.

With this, GoFundMe was forced to block Camp Keaton from receiving any of the money they had hope to bag.

How social media has responded to the news?

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With comedy.

The Keaton challenge below….

 

What Keaton’s clan has to say in response to claims they were wildly vicious racists?

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