{"id":384265,"date":"2026-08-29T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:28:29","slug":"florida-mayor-faces-backlash-after-viral-video-accuses-him-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384265\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mayor faces backlash after viral video accuses him of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">INGLIS, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A video purporting to expose a North Central Florida mayor for racism has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1056957710251646\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1056957710251646\">gone viral<\/a> on social media this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a comment to TV20, Isaac Young, the mayor of the town of Inglis, has apologized for the incident, which he said was an accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ericbryanstone?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsi=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ericbryanstone?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsi=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\">Eric Bryan Stone<\/a>, a popular social media content creator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1056957710251646\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1056957710251646\">posted a video<\/a> exposing Young in an effort to \u201cmake racists scared again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stone explains that many commenters posted racial slurs on an Instagram influencer\u2019s video depicting a mixed-race couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One commenter posted the word \u201cmudshark,\u201d a slur used to describe a white person in a relationship with a Black person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his video, Stone accuses Young of liking the racist comment from his Instagram account. Stone explains that Young is a mayor in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Young told TV20 that he may have accidentally liked the comment while scrolling. He also clarified that what he does on his personal time has nothing to do with the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of this report, Stone\u2019s video has received hundreds of thousands of likes on Facebook and Instagram since being posted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLIS, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A video purporting to expose a North Central Florida mayor for racism has gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153948,28,30,29,153951,153949,1375,153952,45347,153950],"class_list":["post-384265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-eric-bryan-stone","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-inglis-mayor","tag-isaac-young","tag-mayor","tag-mudshark","tag-north-central-florida","tag-town-of-inglis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}