AL teacher admits telling students to turn the n*gger tunes off after they played Tupac in class

[yuiyoshida]

An Alabama high school teacher was placed on paid leave for using a racial slur to complain about music students were playing in class last week.

Students are allowed to listen to music in teacher Teddie Butcher’s food and nutrition class, but they said she complained about a song they’d chosen Friday while working on a project, reported AL.com.

The students were listening to “Dear Mama,” by Tupac, when the white teacher returned to class.

According to multiple witnesses, Butcher told students to “turn the n*gger tunes off.”

Students and their parents complained to Hoover High School administrators, and Butcher admitted to using the slur.

more...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/alabama-teacher-admits-telling-students-turn-ngger-tunes-off-played-tupac-class

disgusting...

[CatMor]

1. It is amazing that a teacher could be so stupid.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Forget it, Jake, it's Alabama

[WestIndianArchie]

6. Stupid

She is not stupid, she is doing her part to support racist/white supremacist scumbags

[CatMor]

8. I consider all racist/white supremacist scumbags stupid

and they have no place teaching.

[Ohiogal]

2. Oh my God

[withoutapaddle]

3. What's with the paid leave bullshit

Fire that ass!

[rockfordfile]

9. I agree. Fire the racist.

[Blue_Adept]

13. It's a protection most unions put into things

And while we disagree with her on what she did, there are plenty of other teachers accused of things that didn't happen and are given the same protections.

There's a process and it must be worked through. NOT mob mentality justice.

[withoutapaddle]

30. She admitted it?

I don't see it as "mob justice". She admitted to saying it. Its not a criminal offense, it is offensive enough to lose your job over imho.

[Blue_Adept]

33. yes, but there's due process

and whatever rules that the school has in agreement with union that has to be gone through. To not go through the proper procedure opens up the school/district to lawsuits.

Just doing shit on the fly is Trump's way.

[withoutapaddle]

35. In no way do I think "Trump's way"

She has protection through her union. That's great. Still think she should be fired but it's just my opinion. And trust me, I know my opinion really doesn't matter. Just my votes.

[Blue_Adept]

37. But you're saying she should be fired before getting the protection and due process she has

Therein lies the problem.

[NCTraveler]

19. Fair process.

Something unions have fought for.

[ConnorMarc]

31. The article states that she ADMITTED to it

What more is there?

[NCTraveler]

38. There is little more. That is why she will lose her job and pay.

I expect the union to hold her employer to their contract as best as possible.

[Tipperary]

54. Have you already forgotten your recent comment on another thread?

[ProudLib72]

5. I wonder if she ever voted for Sessions. nt

[NCTraveler]

22. If she is a voter, there is no doubt in my mind she voted for Sessions.

It disgusts me to know she will probably be voting for him again soon.

She is probably still upset that Moore lost.

[lunasun]

7. Deplorable and stupid .

[ExciteBike66]

10. Poor kids were being taught by someone who is stupid enough to use that word out loud...

As a parent, I would be asking the school board to be more stringent in their hiring process.

[Drahthaardogs]

25. Have you listened to Rap music? The n-word is used over

And over and over.

I heard a song my son was playing where the rapper said it about six times in the first minute.

I made my son turn it off, told him it was unacceptable, and told him not to play that garbage in my house. It was NOT okay.

He told me it was okay because it ended with an "a" and not an "r".

Yeah....NO! Turn it off.

[still_one]

26. That isn't the reason she was suspended, and you know it. Using a racial slur is unacceptable for a

teacher

[lunasun]

41. plus the song does not contain the word

[Drahthaardogs]

46. Absolutely, complete racist. I just found the comment

"someone dumb enough to use that word" a bit ironic considering Hip hop culture uses the word superfluously.

I hate it. I don't buy the whole "we're taking the word back".

It's crude, it's demeaning, and it's wrong. Much like the word "retard". These are mean nasty words.

[still_one]

48. I also despise the use of that word

[ExciteBike66]

27. Not sure what the point is here.

Are you saying that it's ok a for teacher to use the N-word because rappers use it all the time?

Edit: On re-reading, I think you are saying it was ok for her to ask for it to be turned off. I agree with that. It was the way she did it that makes me think she is a bit dumb.

[lunasun]

40. IT is not used in the song, if she wanted a reason she could have used that drugs are mentioned

The word is not used in the song
the poster is assuming and you know how that works

[ExciteBike66]

43. Are you claiming that the poster has made an a** out of me??? ;)

[lunasun]

45. NO no just that putting that in the thread on assumptions .... Sorry maybe I used it incorrectly

The poster just assumed Tupac so must have been because rappers
Plenty in the song you could calmly say is not appropriate for a school setting but it was the teacher that went there to black students

[ExciteBike66]

49. I was just kidding, no worries

[ConnorMarc]

32. So. What?

How does that exonerate this teacher?

[lunasun]

39. IT is not used once in that song. Only used by .................the teacher.

[sarah FAILIN]

11. Y'all need to understand Hoover a little better.

Hoover High used to have one of the first reality shows. They think they're special. Add that to the fact that the have most likely the biggest tax base in the state from their homes and golf courses to their shopping and they do as they want. Their school is in the news every so often for trying to exclude 'apartment dwellers' children in various ways from rezoning to exclude apartments from their city limits to charging a fee to ride the public school busses and they were talking about eliminating busses all together at one point. Read the link below for a perspective from one of these moms I think is going to shock you..
The whole state has discussed this at points trying to straighten them out, but it's like talking to a wall. Even shaming them with talk of children being hit by cars trying to go to school in those busy and crowded streets did nothing. This teacher will be back as soon as people quit talking about it. Their elitist attitude considered, she will probably be rewarded.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/letter_from_a_hoover_apartment.html

[ConnorMarc]

36. Thank you for that

I read the article and the first wave of comments.

Interesting.

[sarah FAILIN]

55. You're welcome.

I hate shopping there at all because of this mindset. Most times I go to the mall north of me. I just hate for my tax dollars to go to them.

[sunonmars]

12. We can guess who this troglodyte voted for

[tavernier]

16. I agree

On that same token, why do teenagers want to emulate prison inmates? Their mannerisms and speech and clothing?

I guess “badass” behavior has a certain allure for young folks and those who don’t have a strong self image. Sadly, this gives more ammunition to the racists .

[ExciteBike66]

28. "I guess badass behavior has a certain allure for young folks"

Yep, but it has been going on for a very long time.

[oasis]

17. Calling out racists is not ignorant. Ignoring them IS ignorant.

But thanks for your two cents.

[McCamy Taylor]

15. Good grief! A racist and tasteless at the same time. No wonder the US

has such a bad rep around the world.

[whathehell]

29. Hmm..Not sure there's such a thing as 'tasteful' racism

That said, racism & "tastelessness" are not exclusive to the US.

[IluvPitties]

20. She looks like a loving educator...

[Initech]

21. Another day in Trump's America.

[GulfCoast66]

52. This is not about Trump

I have lived in the South for half a century. Nothing shocking to a southerner about what she said. I have heard that exact language used in that exact context countless times. Including in church.

50/50 that she keeps her job.

[Initech]

53. I said that because this is just one of countless stories I've seen since the election.

Of people spewing hate and bigotry because Trump emboldened the racists, sexists, and haters. Trump is definitely a symptom, the problem is a lot more complex and when / if we get back in power we definitely need to start addressing it.

[NCTraveler]

23. Lyrics

When I was young, me and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old, kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school, and scared to go home, I was a fool
With the big boys breakin' all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister, over the years
We was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddies, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame Mama
I reminisce on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin' on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary, hey
I'd see the penitentiary one day?
And runnin' from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin' to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, Mama
You always was a black queen, Mama
I finally understand
For a woman it ain't easy tryin' to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how you did it
There's no way I can pay you back, but the plan
Is to show you that I understand: you are appreciated

https://genius.com/2pac-dear-mama-lyrics

[BumRushDaShow]

24. The irony here is that not only were none of those children alive

when the song came out but none had even been born until after Tupac died. I.e., that was a song from their parents' generation.

[Chipper Chat]

34. thanks for posting the lyrics you beat me to it.

If the teacher had bothered to listen to them she would have realized that she was listening to beautiful poetry.

[FM123]

42. She is disgusting! Any day now, she will be appointed to Trump's administation.....

[dawg]

44. They are getting bolder.

They know their *kind* are running things now.

[Aristus]

47. And then she praised Boushh for capturing 'the mighty Chewbacca.'

What an ugg!...

[raven mad]

50. Hoover USED to be the most "liberal" of schools in that state.

My daughter went there. She'd have called this teacher out, and probably beat the shit out of her.

[janterry]

51. Paid leave?

Um, how about an unpaid leave called being fired??

[Blue_Adept]

56. As talked about elsewhere in the thread

She has protections through a teacher's union and likely just school/state rules regarding firing of teachers as well.

Protections that most of us would want for ourselves as well.

Let the process play out. Stop demanding heads the minute something goes awry.