Ohio teacher tells black student: "We do not need another black president"

http://www.examiner.com/article/ohi...tudent-we-do-not-need-another-black-president



An Ohio teacher has been suspended for allegedly telling an African-American student that the country does “not need another black president.”

According to a report that appeared in CBS Cleveland on Thursday, the Fairfield City Schools Board agreed on Monday to suspend 13-year Freshman School teacher, Gil Voigt, without pay.

Fairfield City Schools Board President Dan Murray called the suspension the first necessary step for termination. Voigt has 10 days to ask for a hearing before the school board or a referee.

Murray also said:

“He was talking to some students and said some things that were racially insensitive.”

“We take diversity in our school district very seriously with tolerance of people who are different. We just felt this teacher had crossed the line.”

Fairfield City Schools Superintendent Paul Otten told the Journal-News that the incident actually occurred earlier in the month when Voigt was addressing an African-American student who apparently had some presidential aspirations.

That is when Voigt reportedly told the African-American student: “We do not need another black president.”

Now the logical, follow-up response to this kind of comment about not needing another black president would be to ask the question: What kind of president does the country need? If a black president is politically undesirable, does that mean that the political opposite, another white president, is what the country needs?

Voigt and his supporters would probably argue that they are not necessarily saying that, but when every other president from George Washington to George W. Bush has been a white male, it is certainly plausible that another white president was being suggested by Voigt.

Telling an African-American student or any student that the country does not need a president who looks like them is preposterously questionable and absolutely unprofessional.

Basically, Voigt might as well have been telling the African-American student to go back to colored water fountains or to the proverbial back of the bus. Jim Crow would be proud.

Voigt’s comment sounds very much like a response to a question that radio host Rush Limbaugh asked in 2009, when he pondered: “Can this nation really have an African-American president?”

According to Limbaugh, “any criticism of an African-American president’s policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that’s it!”

Although, conservatives across the board have not allowed these charges of racism to slow them down politically or rhetorically in their criticisms and sometimes outright attacks on President Obama.

And in response to Voigt’s comments, maybe the African-American student should have asked if the country needs another white president based on the most recent, political debacles of the previous Bush administration, because it flies in the face of the idea that the country will automatically do better under the stewardship of a white president.

 

I'm shocked.....

Besides Obama isn't black he's biracial

 

I agree we don't need another black president. If democracy is still a real thing in this particular country we need someone white. I know it doesn't jive with the liberal notion of tolerance but people as a whole in this country are not tolerant. We've seen it during this entire presidency. I want better for all of us and Obama simply can't get it done. Not by any real fault of his own but all this bs dead locking will not move things progressively. I want things to get done and it can't be done with anyone except a white guy possibly a white female but that's it period.

 

All the available poling consistently say you will soon get your first white female president ......Let us see if she will take us to new heights. ...

 

I would be more likely to vote for a qualified woman than any shade of man...don't be surprised if there is a heavy weight Hispanic male in the running as well

 

Blsck and white, that's all this country cares about.

 

U know it blackman

 

.... Empowering women is a banner with traction these days.....

 

anything short of warren for president will be the same deal. i.e. getting no where.

 

I love Elizabeth Warren, never been a groupie for anyone but that woman would have me doing backflips

 

Now that I'd like to see....

 

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Lol oh damn

 

Wait, are you saying you would chose a woman over man, just because she is a woman?

 

The shit that comes out the side of her mouth

 

lmao

at some point, I just decide not to care.

 

I mean got damn

 

QUALIFIED

better than both sides of your mouth

there was never a point where i cared what you have said...lmfao

roll a blunt and chill pecs :smt033

 

I'm moving to colorado

Recreational pot stores mofos

 

although i like Hilary Clinton for 2016 the benghazi coverup is still going to be a major hurdle for her...i don't forecast her as a shoe in as the democratic candidate...it's going to get ugly:smt069