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Controversy Erupts After Celebs Support Keaton Jones

Many times these days, viral moments involve some sort of scandal, embarrassment, wrong-doing, police violence, or shaming. However, this weekend, we witnessed a viral trend that was about empathy, compassion and humanity.

A young boy named Keaton Jones took the internet by storm after his mother posted a video of him crying after being cruelly bullied by kids at his school.

Black celebrities by the dozens began to send Keaton words of encouragement and special invites to be his buddy against his bullies, but then, things started to go left…

That viral video of #KeatonJones talking about being bullied is heartbreaking, and I feel sympathetic towards that child.

But his mom, Kimberly on the other hand, is a suspected racist who makes very problematic posts bullying Black protesters #TheIrony pic.twitter.com/NUhidunP8z — Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) December 11, 2017

Keaton and his family live in Tennessee and they are HARDCORE redneck, confederate-flag-waving, likely-Trump supporters and that begged the perfectly valid question…

Do you think all the black celebs, athletes etc reaching out to Keaton will change his racist family's views on black lives? Serious question. — XXXTensions (@eleven8) December 11, 2017

Y'all think they gonna take the confederate flag off their lawn now that they see how compassionate black people are? Or y'all think they're gonna pretend they didn't see it? — XXXTensions (@eleven8) December 11, 2017

Some felt a type of way…

No, and quite frankly they’re doing the most reaching out in the first place. I’m pretty sure they can go to their local schools and help with the kids being there. But everybody wanna be trendy. Smh — Carl Franklin (@CrlFrnkln) December 11, 2017

…some didn’t.

Idc about that it’s not ok for people to do that idc what your beliefs are. https://t.co/zzgm5C6LPZ — JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) December 11, 2017

What say you? Is there really something wrong with comforting a young boy despite his family’s deplorable values?

Hit the comment section to discuss and flip the page a few times to see the famous faces who reached out to offer their support.