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‘This is literally so scary’: Parent tapes cutout of white baby onto Pampers box featuring Black baby

‘It’s scary to think their hatred runs so deep.’

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In a viral video, a daycare worker shows a white baby’s face taped on top of a photo of a Black baby on a Pampers diapers box.

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In a TikTok posted on March 16, Megan Rehbein (@meganrehbein4) shows a Pampers diapers box that features a Black baby. However, the Black baby’s face has a hole in it and has been taped over with a photo of a white baby’s face.

“Working in a daycare you come across some weird shit,” Rehbein wrote in the video’s overlay text. In her caption, she included the hashtags #SomeParentsSuck and #ScrewedUp.

On Tuesday, Rehbein’s video had over 3.5 million views.

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@meganrehbein4 #someparentssuck #daycare #daycareteacher #weird #what #wtf #foreal ?! #humanity #screwedup ♬ WTF (feat. Amber Van Day) – HUGEL

In a comment on her video, Rehbein says she threw the box away.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Rehbein wrote in a comment. “Goes to show how well and alive racism is.”

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Many commenters expressed their disgust at the racist act of covering up a Black baby’s face with a white one’s.

“That is so inappropriate and gross,” @kaaylin0 commented.

“This is literally so scary,” @iciest.biiitch wrote.

“It’s scary to think their hatred runs so deep,” @tia.burey commented. “That it affects them so badly they did that.”

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Others commented on the reality that racism is taught to children by their parents.

“It’s the fact that these people are raising children,” @myownelement commented.

In a follow-up video, Rehbein reaffirmed that she thought the act of covering up the Black baby’s face was “intentional.”

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