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Related: About this forumSchool board chief won’t resign over racist videos: ‘Nothing illegal about having bad taste’
Rigler produced Rigler Report YouTube videos under the monicker CrackrocKid. In them he gave a conservative, prankster-ish take on inflammatory topics like slavery, sexual assault and President Barack Obamas supposedly foreign birth.
For instance, on the topic of race, Rigler said that if it were not for the institution of slavery, African-Americans would not exist.
Slavery, abominable as it may have been, was integral to creating the agricultural infrastructure which feeds a great part of the world.
In one prank phone call, Rigler posed as an African-American woman named Bonita Williams and said that he was calling from the Office of Pre-Emptive Reparations, a gambit that played into a long-standing right-wing bogeyman, the idea that black Americans will demand financial reparations from whites as recompense for their ancestors enslavement.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/school-board-chief-wont-resign-over-racist-videos-nothing-illegal-about-having-bad-taste/
For instance, on the topic of race, Rigler said that if it were not for the institution of slavery, African-Americans would not exist.
Slavery, abominable as it may have been, was integral to creating the agricultural infrastructure which feeds a great part of the world.
In one prank phone call, Rigler posed as an African-American woman named Bonita Williams and said that he was calling from the Office of Pre-Emptive Reparations, a gambit that played into a long-standing right-wing bogeyman, the idea that black Americans will demand financial reparations from whites as recompense for their ancestors enslavement.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/school-board-chief-wont-resign-over-racist-videos-nothing-illegal-about-having-bad-taste/
Petition: http://www.change.org/p/charles-bradley-rigler-resign-from-the-fairfield-school-board?share_id=WFwhJgQkeU&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition
We, the undersigned, have no confidence in Mr. Charles Bradley Rigler as Fairfield Area School District Board of Education president.
A. We believe Mr. Charles Bradley Rigler has violated the Board Policy 1310.1 "Any citizen of this Commonwealth, having a good moral character...... shall be eligible to the office of school director therein provided That" [Sec. 322] He has done this in the following manner:
a. His controversial and inflammatory YouTube video channel, The Rigler Report.
b. Based on public documents found though the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation, he failed to file Annual/Personal Property Return filing in the years of 2007, 2008 and 2012.
B. Given that Mr. Richard Mathews was nominated while under Mr. Rigler's guidance as president, we believe this nomination is in violation of the Sunshine Act as well as our first amendment rights and should be rescinded.
This is a National petition all are welcome to sign and show their support!
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School board chief won’t resign over racist videos: ‘Nothing illegal about having bad taste’ (Original Post)
savalez
Oct 2014
OP
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)1. he's right about it not being illegal
but no one like this should be in any position of authority
savalez
(3,517 posts)2. Doesn't seem to fit
Last edited Thu Oct 23, 2014, 07:25 PM - Edit history (1)
the "good moral character" clause in the Board Policy.
Aristus
(66,409 posts)4. Anyone who apologizes for slavery is utterly devoid of good moral character.
n/t
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)5. Indeed
shenmue
(38,506 posts)3. If he is not serving all his constituents with fairness and respect,
he is taking tax money for no reason. In my part of town, that's called theft and fraud.
savalez
(3,517 posts)6. He's probably one of those
small gub'mint knuckleheads too.