#HisNameIsCayden: Gerod Roth Posts Photo On Facebook That Sparks Racist Jokes

Gerod Roth, who uses the alias Geris Hilton online, posted a photo of himself at his workplace with the three-year-old Cayden Jade in the background. The photo sparked a series of racist comments and jokes.

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Cayden was with his mother, Sydney Jade, at her workplace at Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta, and was roaming the halls when Roth spotted him and snapped a photo of himself with the aloof Cayden in the background. After posting it to his Facebook page under the name Geris Hilton, the photo soon attracted attention from his followers, many of whom made racist jokes about it. Roth himself posted the comment, “He was feral,” in response to someone asking where he had found “a black kid.”