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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Young Black Thugs’ Need To Be ‘Put Down Like The Dogs They Are,’ Says Louisiana School Psychologist
Mark Traina, a school psychologist in Louisiana, has been using his twitter account to spew racially-charged accusations about young black thugs, and now the Souther Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is highlighting his comments in a civil rights complaint against the Jefferson Parish School Board. The complaint alleges that black students and disabled students are sent to alternative schools at a significantly higher rate than white students.
Below are Trainas most damning tweets about black people and Trayvon Martin:
But Trainas opinions go even further than personal hatred for black youth. On his twitter account, he also goes into his politics (Can President Obama win re-election if almost two-thirds of whites are opposed to him? he writes). He also voiced strong support for Alabamas segregationist Governor George Wallace, Colorlines reports:
In another tweet about the Republican presidential primaries in March, Traina wrote, I grew up in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana I am a Wallace Man at Heart!
The Jefferson Parish School Board is already investigating Trainas tweets.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/22/488506/black-thugs-traina-splc/
trumad
(41,692 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)The problem I see is that others in the school probably knew this guy and how he thinks. He may end up being the scape goat for a bunch of folks that aren't much different from him.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Maybe the school will let him go, and our prison system will hire him right back up.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)It doesn't matter what title they hold, education level they have or what field they are in, they are proud to be stupid, wrong and big-mouthed.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)TAKEN AWAY!"
superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)to the edge of their First Amendment rights.
If someone on the left was spouting this nonsense, hoo boy!
bluerum
(6,109 posts)just1voice
(1,362 posts)Oops, I'm supposed to never look back at that, LOL.
zazen
(2,978 posts)I'm not sure where to safely house them--surely not where they can affect children--but I think it helps younger people realize how far we've come and how quickly, and what the civil rights activists have been up against.
That was only 50 years ago--a speck of geologic time.
His outrageousness almost solidifies gains, just like when homophobes overreach, thus pushing moderates to the left, out of sheer embarrassment of being affiliated with that level of extremism.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)with the most problems are confined to the small "public" sector that remained after 'shock doctrine' charterization.
In the wake of the Southern Poverty Law Center filing numerous complaints against the Jefferson County School System for, they allege, sending a disproportionate number of black and disabled students to alternative schools to languish for months, the school is under even heavier fire after it was discovered that a school psychologist posted a slew of racially incendiary comments on Twitter.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/put-down-like-the-dogs-they-are-school-psychologist-under-fire-for-racially-incendiary-comments/
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)You'd think a school psychologist would be educated.
Educated? Minimally perhaps. Enlightened? Certainly not.
Must have gotten his job through the Good Ole Boy Network.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Since they were all over that teacher in NC?
sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)Not that there's any connection, but I can't imagine her ever being so hateful and unprofessional. This person needs to lose their job.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)has already judged them, because that means he is really only a resource for non-black students.
Hopefully, he will lose his job.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)fire the "psychologist"