It seems appropriate to remind America that freedom of speech is not absolute, i.e. you can still lose your job when you say something stupid. That is what has happened down in Miami when their principal Alberto Iber defended the actions of Eric Casebolt.
Casebolt was the maniac cop in the McKinney, Texas video throwing black teenagers on the ground and pulling his pistol out on two all over a pool party call. Even though legal experts, other officers and the general public has shamed the cop for his actions as they were over the top, Iber thought better to defend him. He thought wrong.
He really said that the cop was in fear of his life. Somehow when you are clearly in control of a situation that no one is resisting, you are still in fear of your life. Bikini clad black teenagers must be concealing a weapon somewhere right? Iber’s idiotic comments have cost him his job as principal and he has been reassigned administratively.
School superintendent Alberto Carvalho commented on the swift removal:
“Insensitivity — intentional or perceived — is both unacceptable and inconsistent with our policies, but more importantly with our expectation of common sense behavior that elevates the dignity and humanity of all, beginning with children.”
No the stupidity did not end with Iber’s comment, it actually is worse in the case of Texas 4th grade teacher Karen Fitzgibbons.
Fitzgibbons was so ‘enraged’ that the cop had to resign and blamed the cause of racial tensions on blacks. She must not teach science because tension requires strain on both ends, none the less her Facebook post calls for segregation and then #Imnotracist at the end. Let that marinate for a minute.
You’re angry because a man lost his job, when his own chief officer said he was wrong? Since when did we start treating trespassing the same as aggravated assault? Those same black kids that you mention flunking out of school probably were taught by unqualified, ignorant teachers such as yourself.
You also want to send them to another side of town to hurt themselves. Well America already helped do that and they’re called ghettos now. Fitzgibbons wants blacks to leave the innocent white people alone and hurt themselves. So if all the black people just left, that would mean white people would never harm each other? Explain the biker shootout then please Karen.
Iber and Fitzgibbons irrational fear is what continues to stop real dialogue in this country. You can say whatever you want and then try to hide behind it with hastags, #imnotracist, #itwasagatedcommunity, #imsickofthemcausingtrouble. Let us try a new one #youbotharejackasses.
Freedom of speech does not equal freedom of consequences.
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