This is old, but I showed this to My Boy Blue and we both agree:
1) The teacher was being ignant, but ultimately harmless
2) THAT KID NEEDS TO HAVE HIS ASS BEAT!!!!!
I'm sorry, but teachers need to be paid WAY more than they do. I know for a fact that even if that little boy didn't say Nigga right before the incident, that he and others probably said it regularly. For that little bastard to say that man needed to be PUNISHED and lose his job? He is taking things way too far.
First of all, the man WAS punished. 10 days unpaid leave. Public humiliation. Lesson Learned...but to lose his job??? It wasn't like the continuous and obvious racism of Imus, he just seemed to be having trouble relating to the young black men in his class. I seriously would have written a letter if they did any more than suspend him. You don't go to school, get your license, work for years in an oftentimes turbulent environment to try to help these youngins' just to lose your job over something so trite?! I think THAT'S crazy...but what do YOU think?
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'm way more worried about the less obvious disparities betwixt the different races of the world. For some of my favorite and most enlightening videos on race, look at the facebook page for Everybody Loves Crazy.
