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Racist comments may be sadly commonplace online, but you wouldn't expect to see them generated by your co-worker's friends on a picture of your own child.
That's the situation Sydney Shelton, an employee of Atlanta's Polaris Marketing Group, found herself in after a colleague posted a selfie with Shelton's 3-year-old son, Cayden. The photo, originally posted Sept. 16, seemed innocent enough, until it began eliciting a string of racist jokes from friends of the photographer.
"But Massuh, I dindu nuffin," wrote one commenter on the post.
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