‘I am not a racist’: Woman who started Haitian rumor regrets how ‘it just exploded’ – Times of India
Springfield's Erika Lee has been traced as the ground zero of the rumor that Haitian immigrants are eating pet cats and dogs. The rumor started from her Facebook post which she did not even expect to reach beyond Springfield. To her surprise, her fourth-hand information reached the presidential debate stage as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump spouted the theory to blame Joe Biden- Kamala Harris administration's immigration policy.Erika told NBC News that she is not a racist and regrets that her Facebook post has snowballed into such a massive controversy. "I'm not a racist. Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent," she said adding that her daughter is half- black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. What Erika posted was n...