If you’re not following the Nolan Wells case, here’s a brief recap: Wells, an 18-year-old black kid from Mississippi, went on a boating trip with friends for the Fourth of July, but never came home alive—his body was recovered Monday, July 6th. The county sheriff suspected an accidental drowning, a theory made more plausible considering reports that Wells and a number of his friends had been drinking alcohol all day—though nothing is official and confirmed because the autopsy results have yet to be released as the state medical examiner awaits a toxicology report. Additionally, AP reported that the friends who had last seen Wells alive were all cooperating with police and the investigation.
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As a mother myself, and a mother of sons at that, I can relate to the deep grief and pain that Wells’s loss is to his family. What I can’t relate to is immediately bringing on a team of race-baiters who will use my child’s death to fuel racial tensions, suggesting a narrative against what the available evidence proffers—which is exactly what is happening. Why the race-mongering? Well, because Wells was pictured with white friends before his tragic death, and as we all know, white people are bloodlusting monsters who love to kill our black friends for no good reason. At least, that’s what we’re supposed to be gathering based on the powerhouse players allied with Wells’s mother and stepfather, news reports, and viral posts on social media.
This isn’t to suggest whatsoever that the police don’t conduct a proper investigation, but now we’ve got Ben Crump, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, and Colin Kaepernick all involved—and Crump in particular is spreading false information. Here’s one example: Video from the Fourth depicts some sort of verbal (and possibly physical) altercation, and Crump says it’s Wells’s voice that can be heard in the background, suggesting there’s more to the story. But it turned out the voice does not belong to Wells; it belongs to Tracestin Shepherd, a young Hispanic-looking kid who described Wells as his “best friend,” and said this:
Shepherd said he and Wells were among a tight circle of friends who had known each other since their freshman year at Ocean Springs High School. Shepherd, 20, said Wells ‘was just somebody that you automatically just felt so comfortable to talk to’ and they bonded through athletics. Their friend group was ‘very diverse’ in race and ethnicity, and he said they all had one thing in common: Admiration for Wells.
‘Nobody would ever hurt Nolan in our friend group. We would die for him. We would do everything in our power for that guy. If he needed anything, we would do it,’ he said. ‘Nolan brought us all together.’
According to Shepherd, Wells left his friends after an electrical issue forced them to head back early, and he wanted to stay on the island with a girl he’d met, telling Shepherd he’d be back on another friend’s boat. When he didn’t show up that night, the friends reported him missing.
But, Crump says there are “glaring contradictions,” like how a fit kid who knew how to swim could possibly drown after apparently consuming who knows how much alcohol, and wondered how all the other outrageously drunk people didn’t notice a “distressed” swimmer. Wells also apparently left his phone on the first boat—which doesn’t seem that crazy. Don’t drunk people always lose their stuff?
It really doesn’t read like a grand conspiracy to me—the answer seems to lie in the alleged massive alcohol consumption. Here’s what Sarah Field’s articulated:
Honestly, this should tell you who he [Crump] is: an activist who desperately wants it to be a white person’s fault, not someone who wants the truth and nothing but the truth.
(It’s also worth noting that black kids are endlessly slaughtered by other blacks, and Crump doesn’t have much to say on those deaths, clearly just inserting himself here because there’s an easy anti-white racial card to play.)
Then we’ve got the media saying Wells’s death is “mysterious,” and there’s actually more to the story. That could end up being the case, but there really is nothing “mysterious” about what we currently “know.” AP, while reporting on Wells, said it was a case “shadowed by the state’s fraught racial history and lingering distrust in law enforcement” and reminded the reader about Emmett Till.
And blacks drowning in “mysterious” circumstances is now a concern of the media? Since when? Where was that investigative bug when Tafari Campbell, the longtime Obama chef, suspiciously drowned while paddleboarding in a pond near the Obama compound in Martha’s Vineyard?
And of course, blacks across social media are calling for white punishment, and asserting that whites cannot be trusted:
I want these White boys & their parents arrested for the Murder of Nolan Wells.
— 𝒯𝒞⁷⁷⁷ (@TifahCrump777) July 13, 2026
Are all white people racist? No. Can you have white friends? Yes. Should you ever be the only black person in a group surrounded by whites? YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT CALL FOR YOURSELF. I know for me, hell to the no. Their history and nature tells me to not trust them with my life. pic.twitter.com/h8fUnXQxfa
— Don Snow 🥶 (@Cant_Be_Rated) July 7, 2026
Wells’s friends, including Shepherd, have all received death threats, by the way.
The worst part is, if the investigation does find that Wells accidentally drowned after drinking too much, a demise which seems most likely, these anti-white racists won’t accept it. They’re out for blood, and I hate to think they’re going to get it, one way or another.
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