The woman who goes by “Thekeptwife__” on TikTok went viral earlier this week for all the wrong reasons. There’s a disturbing trend on the popular app featuring Black creators talking about the the difference between Black people and “hood” Black people.
This particular personality, whose really name is Danielle Henderson, took it a bit farther by saying she’s glad that Tampa (the city where she resides) is segregated. Now, rumors are swirling that Henderson has a police record herself.
One Instagram post asserts that Henderson was “arrested, charged and booked in Hillsborough County jail back in February for BATTERY.” Alongside the caption detailing the alleged crime was a mugshot of Henderson from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
In the TikTok clip, which has amassed over 100,000 views, Henderson stated that though she “didn’t grow up in the hood” she worked in the hood. It was one of “the most miserable experiences of [her] entire life,” she explained. “You could not look at them wrong—they wanted to fight. You could not be quiet...if you were quiet it’s ‘you think you’re all that, you think you’re better than us.’”
Henderson said that these hood folks also called her broke for not wearing a lace wig. She also insisted they say the most “ignorant” and “uneducated” things and would befriend her to use her, learn her business or “gather tea” on her to tell other people.
The video only got worse, with Henderson saying that she never felt safe around hood people and that she’s “glad” that “Tampa’s so segregated” so she doesn’t have to go to “that side” of town. Even though she claimed to have trauma from these certain kinds of folks, perpetuating racist stereotypes of Black people isn’t a way to gain sympathy—it’s just cringe.