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By Tanasia Kenney -May 15, 2018
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A high school teacher in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. has been removed from the classroom pending an investigation into disparaging remarks he made to a Haitian student, in which he referred to the teens native home as some third-world island country.
A high school teacher in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. has been removed from the classroom pending an investigation into disparaging remarks he made to a Haitian student, in which he referred to the teens native home as some third-world island country.
Palm Beach High School officials said theyre investigating the incident after video of the tense exchange was shared on Facebook, Newsweek reported. A relative of the student said the video has been viewed more than 26,000 times since Friday.
In the clip, the unnamed teacher can be heard berating the student in front of his classmates.
Its called a door, let me show you how it works, he says. I dont know how it works where youre from, down in some third-world island country, where they dont got them. Let me show you what its like in America.
Radio host and Haitian activist James Leger said the teachers comment was undoubtedly racist.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/15/florida-teacher-fire-distasteful-rant-haitian-student-let-show-like-america/
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MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)15 MAY 2018 AT 10:54 ET
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A video posted on YouTube earlier this month shows a black real estate investor in Memphis, Tennessee dealing with local police officers after a neighbor called them on him while he was trying to fix up the next-door house.
As real estate investor Michael Hayes writes, he went to the house, which is in a dilapidated condition, to inspect it. The woman came out of the house and asked him what he was doing. At this point, he showed her the investment contract that he had giving him permission to work on the house, as well as written permission that he received from the houses owner to be on the property.
However, this didnt seem to satisfy the womans suspicions about him, and she ended up calling the police.
When the police arrived on the scene, Hayes calmly explained the situation to the officers, who were sympathetic to what he was saying. They then asked the woman in the neighboring house to let him do his job.
The woman tells the officers that he can do his job but then she glares at him and tells him, Hurry up, do it, and get out!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-white-woman-calls-cops-black-man-whos-trying-fix-house-neighborhood/
marble falls
(57,080 posts)and using the key.
The calling cops part is one thing, it's the getting involved before and after thing that truly astounds me.
I honestly believe some of these callers have the intention of being able to watch the cops beat or shoot a PoC.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Edward Suazo
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So my wife and her best friend Just experience what America is becoming !
They where on there lunch time and ordering there food and just because they where speaking in Spanish to the waiter this asshole jumps in and started to call the waiter and my wife and her best friend all types of names and threatened to call I.C.E on them and the employees !!!!
I wish I was there because clearly this peace of shit need someone to punch him in his mouth !!
What a big man talking down to couple of women and a helpless employee. I wish someone tells me I cant speak in my native language ! First of all they wasnt talking to you !! Asshole !
My country !! Haha 😆
I love the way people are just throwing that world around lately !!
If you love this country this much ! Why dont you put on uniform and protect it !!
If he was so offended because the waiter was speak in Spanish only because of a native person spoke to him in Spanish, why dont he start waitering and he wont have that issue and family stop getting Spanish nannies and stop getting Spanish people to farm and .........
You know where Im getting !!
So please stop !! Because in the end you need them ! But what you need to do is stop trying to control us ! Slavery stopped a long time ago
https://www.facebook.com/eddiesuazo16/posts/1637928756325262
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The evangelicals, besides being bat shit crazy end-timers are misogynistic, racist, homophobic deplorables.
kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)He will be fine, he probably works with a bunch of people who think like this!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Oh good Lord.
It's fun to read the Google "Ask a question'' cuz the hoi-polli are really dragging him, including remarks in Spanish. I imagine he will somehow get that removed but hopefully he's in a meeting with his partners right now getting his ass chewed.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)As someone said in the Google comments on his website, does he yell at people speaking Yiddish or Hebrew in Jewish delis.
Sadly, he'll probably come out of this smelling like a rose because some RepubliCon will prop him up as a victim who was deprived of his free speech
Maybe the Ethics Committee of the NY State Bar will rain on his head 😒
grantcart
(53,061 posts)FSogol
(45,481 posts)tblue37
(65,340 posts)demmiblue
(36,845 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)this country needs a national moratorium on racism and a national study day on race relations and WHY we are at this point now where an open and obvious racist is potus and AG. Also, hopefully, people can learn about the positive contributions AA have made to american society. That's cultural, scientific and any other positive way one can think of.
Make America Racist Again (MARA), openly racist again. This is the current direction of ameriKKKa and this can't end well.
I have always called american/society/culture schizoid. From a POTUS such as President Barack Obama to a potus like trump. Proves my point to me.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Thank goodness for cell phone cameras. This isn't new - it's just nobody believes people of color in these situations without cell phone footage. A lot of people don't even believe them with proof like this. Things are bad and always have been.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)By Tanasia Kenney -May 16, 2018
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A seventh-grade student at Lansing Middle School in Lansing, Kans., is suing school district officials over how he was treated after reporting physical and sexual assault at the hands of a white classmate.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S District Court in Kansas City, the African-American student claims he was the subject of repeated harassment and bullying by a white pupil but was instead treated as the aggressor, and punished when he finally fought back, the Kansas City Star reported.
Both boys are seventh-graders at the local middle school.
The complaint alleges that the white student groped the victims rear end while they were in study hall on Feb. 6. The victim reported the assault to a teacher who only intervened after repeated complaints from the Black student. Her solution? Telling the victim to move to another seat.
The abuse continued on the bus ride home after school, where the perpetrator allegedly grabbed the Black students penis, hit him on the head multiple times, and kicked him in the face hard enough to cause a nosebleed, according to the suit. Thats when the victim stood up for himself and punched the other kid in the face.
The students complaint goes on to allege racial discrimination, arguing that the district failed to handle the bullying situation properly because of the victims race. For instance, after the school bus incident, school officials suspended the Black student but took zero disciplinary action against his white aggressor.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/16/kansas-city-student-sues-district-physically-sexually-assaulted-white-classmate/
Perseus
(4,341 posts)And that is a teacher?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)What an eejit.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)That teacher needs to be shamed about "This is English... let me show you how it works. Not like in some backwards red-neck county where you missed learning how to speak proper English."
He won't get fired - that is too much work and they hate the Haitians in FL.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)tblue37
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aggiesal
(8,914 posts)My mom from Guadalajara and my dad from Chihuahua, although he was actually born in Colorado.
So my dad was the first generation US Citizen in his family, but he lived his childhood years outside
the capital city of Chihuahua.
They both met in Northwest Indiana and got married.
I remember growing up, we lived on a street named Catalpa Ave. then years later moving about
a mile east to a street named Oak Ave., because it was closer to the schools, we would later attend.
On that street we had a neighbor named Mr. Best, who was the biggest racist I had ever met.
I remember once walking past his house while he was sitting on the front porch, when he yelled a
question at me, "Why don't you go back where you came from?"
Being the smart a$$ that I am, knowing he meant, why don't I go back to Mexico, I responded,
"What? Go back to Catalpa? That's too far to walk to school."
Mr. Best was not happy with that response.
I still laugh when I think about that incident, but racism is alive and well in the 2010's.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)or one of the Cabinet offices. With any luck or justice at all, his teaching days are over.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)for so much change in this country. Obviously none of this behavior is new or even - if were being honest - particularly Trump-related, its just on video; now we dont need to convince people that teachers are saying stupid shit or racist customers are popping off in queues just show the video and shame the fuckers.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)And read the response of the community to both the action and the justification.