Joe Burgos
Diversity
Mr. Cassidy
10/20/13
Racism Article
Summary:
My
article is about the superintendent and the athletic director of a
Philadelphia-area school district resigning from their jobs. It’s said that the
reason why these two might have had to resign from their jobs is because they
were both caught sending offensive and racist text messages to each other. To
make matters even worse it says that the Daily
Local News in West Chester leaked a transcript of the messages that the two
men were sending to each other. In one
conversation the two men talk about that black people should the same last name
and that last name should be the “N” word. In another conversation they talk
about a red-haired girl having sex with a black man and they make jokes saying
that there is no way that an “ape” referring to a black man had sex with a
white woman. The way that people found out about these messages was that a
district employee saw the messages while transferring data from one to the
other.
Reflection:
As I read this article I was just in
shock. First off I feel that these to men are honestly stupid. I feel this
because they have jobs that of course revolve around kids of different cultures
and backgrounds and to start talking bad about them is just dumb. Secondly they
are sending text through phones that the school district issues and of course
they are going to be patrolled and checked on by the district. They way that
they refer to black people and what they think of them is just awful they are
horrible people. I also feel that as soon as the district got word of this they
should have immediately fired them both. Why keep two men that make offensive
jokes about black people, that just doesn’t make sense everyone is human and
they should be treated equally.
It's amazing at what people do. I can't explain how I feel right now. Words fail me
ReplyDeleteThat is so degarding what these two people did. It shows a bad example to the community and the students around it.
ReplyDeleteI feel as though this is completely unnecessary. The reason I feel this way is because they have jobs where they experience different kinds of races, religion etc. They should get use to seeing black people, or spanish people. Their job consists of this and if they don't like African Americans they should find a new job.
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