Georgia substitute teacher fired after video shows him going on a obscenity-laced rant about Barack Obama
Last week, a substitute teacher in Fulton County, GA has been fired after a video showed him going on an “expletive-laced, racist rant” against President Obama while in the classroom. 11 Alive reported.
The teacher hasn’t been identified, but he flamed the former president for drone strikes saying that, “f**king Obama … bombed the sh*t out of my country.”
“It’s very disturbing the kind of language that was being used in a classroom,” Gerald Griggs, Atlanta NAACP’s first vice president, told 11 Alive. “School is not the place to have that kind of vitriol conversation with young people. That’s why we’re concerned, and the definite racist overtones that were coming out were very, very concerning.”
“No generation of young people should be subjected to a hostile environment where they’re made to feel unsafe and uncomfortable,” Griggs said.
The district has since fired the substitute teacher. However, Griggs said the NAACP will take action and contact the school board.
“We understand that they’ve taken swift action, and we believe that was appropriate, but we still are concerned that that level of political rhetoric that is damaging was being used in the school in front of young people,” Griggs said.
The unmanned teacher was referring to drone programs used by the military and CIA to neutralize threats across the Middle East that happened largely during the presidency of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. These strikes were controversial at the time, because they posed to nearby civilians. Since Joe Biden’s administration, the use of drones to conduct military strikes has declined dramatically according to The Week.