Even more pressing than “Can a black person be racist?” is the question “Can a woman mansplain?” or “Can a black woman whitesplain something?” Well, we finally have an answer.

Students at Ben Franklin High School—named Louisiana’s top public high school—ended up having to school a white teacher earlier this week after he apparently thought it was cool to just flagrantly use the n-word because, as he put it, it was a “commoditized word.”