Itβs about time we have a serious conversation about how a lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students.
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Earlier this Black History Month, The Root reported that a teacher in Floridaβwho must have gotten his doctorate in unmitigated caucasity long before he achieved the credentials that put him in charge of a classroomβis under investigation after he told his class that slave masters never whipped their enslaved and that the n-word isnβt really racist.
On Thursday, we covered a Black Oklahoma middle school student who said his teacher flipped out on him over his βBlack Kingβ T-shirt and started ranting about how America needs a White History Month.
Well now, we have a Georgia high school teacher who is under investigation after she told her class via Zoom that Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were responsible for the 26-year-oldβs death at the hands of Lousiville, Ky., police officers who botched a search warrant that should never have been issued.
According to International Business Times, the educator for white supremacy in question is Susan McCoy, a forensics science teacher at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Ga. A recording of the Zoom class session shows that McCoy didnβt even bother learning Taylorβs name but because whitesplaining is Americaβs favorite pastime outside of Black oppression, she thought her remedial-ass knowledge of Taylorβs case was enough to lecture her class on what happened on March 13 of last year.
βIβm sorry she was killed but if you hang out with people with guns that shoot at cops youβre likely to get caught in the crossfire,β McCoy can be heard saying in reference to who she later identified as, βwhatβs her name? Breonna somethingβthe one that was killed in the gunfire from the cops.β
Already itβs clear that McCoy has learned as much about βBreonna somethingβsβ case as white people learn about Black culture before they decide to steal it. But her ignorance becomes more evident the longer her privilege prevents her from shutting the entire fuck up.
βShe was hanging out with the guy who was wanted on charges,β she continued. βThey knocked and he fired at them and they fired back. You know if you hang out with people who are criminals, and they shoot at a cop, youβre likely to get caught in the crossfire. It does not matter what color your skin is, youβre likely to get caught in the crossfire. Iβm sorry she diedβitβs sad but she put herself in that position by hanging out with somebody she shouldnβt have been with.β
Some of her studentsβincluding at least one Black student whose frustration can be felt through the cameraβtried very politely to explain to McCoy that she didnβt know what the fuck she was talking about. They tried to explain that if Walker fired at the police first, it was because he didnβt know they were cops because he didnβt hear them announce themselves before kicking in the doorβa thing Walker has explained to law enforcement and media ad nauseam and itβs likely the reason charges against him were dropped. They also tried to explain that Taylorβs ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, was actually the suspect police were after and he was already in custody when the botched search warrant was executed (along with Breonna).
But since caucasity is asΒ caucasity does, McCoy just basically doubled down on all of her white nonsense and kept on speaking on a thing she knows next to nothing about. Eventually, the Black student just asked her to stop and just βtalk about science, please.β
According to the Times, McCoyβs loud-and-wrongness rightfully got her dragged across social media and as a result, the Cobb County School District released a statement saying it is βaware of the allegations, is investigating, and will follow any relevant District policy,β and that βas a District, we expect every member of our staff to treat each other with respect and understanding.β
Listen: Black life is stressful enough without our youth having to be confronted with white America being white America every time they enter their institutions of learning. Teachers like McCoy donβt belong anywhere near a classroom whether in person or virtual. Hopefully, this incident is handled by authorities who understand that.
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