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Texas School Counselor ‘Relieved of All Duties’ Over Shockingly Racist Post...
The Blaze ^ | April 19, 2013 | Mike Opelka

Posted on 04/19/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by beaversmom

According to her profile on the popular networking website Linked In, Karon Wright describes her professional aspirations this way:

Eager to bring students into the twenty-first century using a unique combination of education and counseling experience coupled with thirteen years of healthcare background in physical medicine and rehabilitative counseling.

Those publicly stated aspirations seem to be in direct conflict with a comment allegedly made by the school counselor — a comment that has gotten her in some very hot water.

Ms. Wright was a counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie ISD. That was until the district announced that she has been “immediately relieved of all duties.” The action was reportedly taken after an offensive remark written from her Facebook page (now removed from the web) was posted on WFAA-TV’s Facebook page. The statement in question referenced to the tragedy in West, Texas.

WFAA’s report states that the school district was quite clear in how they viewed the statement attributed to Ms. Wright, calling it “highly offensive, insensitive to the tragedy happening to our friends and neighbors in West, and disrespectful to the very human bond that we share with the people of West, especially those who have lost their loved ones.”

The school has also removed any reference to Karon Wright from their Staff section on the website.


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1 posted on 04/19/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

And so what was the comment?


2 posted on 04/19/2013 7:12:19 AM PDT by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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To: beaversmom

I hate it when they don’t actually tell you what was said.


3 posted on 04/19/2013 7:12:30 AM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: squarebarb

It’s been posted here.


4 posted on 04/19/2013 7:13:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: squarebarb
From Karon Wright's FB page:

"Its amazing how the "whites" get angry when Obama speaks. Oh well....its most of the whites who is getting blown away. So they will soon be wiped from the earth. Lol"

5 posted on 04/19/2013 7:14:09 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: arderkrag

See post #5.


6 posted on 04/19/2013 7:14:41 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

One of Eric Holder’s people who wished White people would be blown off the earth.


7 posted on 04/19/2013 7:15:08 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: squarebarb
Something to the effect that it's only white people getting blown up, so soon there won't be any white people around.

My question is: Does "relieved of all duties" mean her azz was fired? I'll bet not.

8 posted on 04/19/2013 7:16:02 AM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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To: beaversmom

“I wuz hacked !”, she says.


9 posted on 04/19/2013 7:16:19 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: squarebarb; arderkrag
 
Posted some F the honkies nonsense
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009518/posts
 
Pic at link.
 

10 posted on 04/19/2013 7:16:36 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: beaversmom

My wife showed me this post from FB that was reposted by someone else who took issue with it/her.

Nasty, racist bitch.


11 posted on 04/19/2013 7:17:06 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: beaversmom

Her statement was offensive, but it always bothers me when people can lose jobs for their free speech, when that speech is deemed offensive.

If there is any evidence that her beliefs impacted her performance of her job, then fire her. If she had said this at work, fire her.

Of course, I know people get fired all the time for things they put on facebook.


12 posted on 04/19/2013 7:17:17 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: clintonh8r

And, I’ll bet she is getting paid too. She might sue the schoolboard if not....


13 posted on 04/19/2013 7:17:26 AM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: beaversmom

But its white racism thats the scourge of the nation. Sheesh


14 posted on 04/19/2013 7:17:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: beaversmom

“its most of the whites who is”

I see shes a real rocket scientist.


15 posted on 04/19/2013 7:18:47 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: beaversmom

More from The Blaze...

The sequence of events:

Thursday, WFAA posted the text of President Obama’s comments on the deadly explosion in West, Texas.
Reportedly, the TV station’s Facebook page was also hit with some negative comments about the president.
Ms. Wright allegedly responded with the comment posted above – one that has since caused her to be relieved of all duties at the school.
Other Facebook users took offense to Wright’s comments and started sharing them across social media platforms, also including the name and email of her supervisor at the school.

Before the day was out, Karon Wright’s employment was in question and the offensive comment removed from the WFAA Facebook page.

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According to her profile on the popular networking website Linked In, Karon Wright describes her professional aspirations this way:

Eager to bring students into the twenty-first century using a unique combination of education and counseling experience coupled with thirteen years of healthcare background in physical medicine and rehabilitative counseling.

Texas School Counselor Karon Wright Relieved of Duties Following Racist Post

Those publicly stated aspirations seem to be in direct conflict with a comment allegedly made by the school counselor — a comment that has gotten her in some very hot water.

Ms. Wright was a counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie ISD. That was until the district announced that she has been “immediately relieved of all duties.” The action was reportedly taken after an offensive remark written from her Facebook page (now removed from the web) was posted on WFAA-TV’s Facebook page. The statement in question referenced to the tragedy in West, Texas.

Texas School Counselor Karon Wright Relieved of Duties Following Racist Post

WFAA’s report states that the school district was quite clear in how they viewed the statement attributed to Ms. Wright, calling it “highly offensive, insensitive to the tragedy happening to our friends and neighbors in West, and disrespectful to the very human bond that we share with the people of West, especially those who have lost their loved ones.”

The school has also removed any reference to Karon Wright from their Staff section on the website.
Texas School Counselor Karon Wright Relieved of Duties Following Racist Post

Image: Jackson Middle School

The sequence of events:

Thursday, WFAA posted the text of President Obama’s comments on the deadly explosion in West, Texas.
Reportedly, the TV station’s Facebook page was also hit with some negative comments about the president.
Ms. Wright allegedly responded with the comment posted above – one that has since caused her to be relieved of all duties at the school.
Other Facebook users took offense to Wright’s comments and started sharing them across social media platforms, also including the name and email of her supervisor at the school.

Before the day was out, Karon Wright’s employment was in question and the offensive comment removed from the WFAA Facebook page.

Ms. Wright sees things differently, claiming that her account was hacked. TheBlaze has been unsuccessful in our attempts to make contact with Ms. Wright through her Linked In account and other sources. We would like to know more about the alleged hacking of her Facebook account.

In a statement to the ABC TV affiliate, Wright wrote;

“My Facebook account was hacked and the statement that was made is not of my character. I am a school counselor who will never 1) jeopardize my family, 2) jeopardize my job, and 3) jeopardize the trust of the students, parents, staff, faculty, and administration of GPISD.”

WFFA’s website is also reporting that she has hired an attorney and filed a complaint with Facebook.


16 posted on 04/19/2013 7:19:33 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: squarebarb

17 posted on 04/19/2013 7:19:35 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Izzy Dunne

HA HA

WHAT A MAROON.


18 posted on 04/19/2013 7:19:41 AM PDT by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Agreed.


19 posted on 04/19/2013 7:19:49 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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To: beaversmom

White Genocide - LOL.

The “Final Solution” was also insensitive.


20 posted on 04/19/2013 7:20:53 AM PDT by DManA
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