Teacher resigns amid racial slur fallout

News-Press.com ^ | 04/20/02 | David E. Plazas

[What Is Ain't]

An Immokalee High School teacher who offended his black students with the use of a racial slur in class has resigned.

Sociology teacher and basketball coach Damon Jones, who is white, came under fire after he showed an episode of Fox-TV

[ozzymandus]

Ha,ha. What's this clueless fool doing showing TV programs in class, anyway? I'd like to hear the NEA's spin on this.

[BenR2]

This is suppression of free speech and education.

Does anyone remember Sly Stone's hit, "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey?" The following line was, "Don't call me Whitey, Nigger."

The group was biracial. I think the song would be banned today?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

I bet any one of these scholars has rap CDs using the same word. Talk about a double standard!!

[Bonaparte]

Only a liberal would show an episode of "Boston Public" or even watch that sort of garbage. This teacher just got sacrificed by his own ideological breathren on the altar of political correctness. You might say they "called him back to Moscow."

[TheBattman]

You are actually right.

If anyone here has not seen that episode, it is actually a pretty decent handling of the "N" word. It does expose the double standard in society in the use of the word.