superior – The Philadelphia Observer https://philadelphiaobserver.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:54:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 ‘They Think They’re…Superior’: Black Couple Allegedly Attacked By White Group After Detroit Car Crash https://philadelphiaobserver.com/they-think-theyresuperior-black-couple-allegedly-attacked-by-white-group-after-detroit-car-crash/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:54:31 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=5594

Detroit Police say they’re investigating an incident in which a Black couple were the victims of an alleged assault and theft following a car crash on New Year’s Day.

The details of this case were first posted by the social media sleuth known as TizzyEnt. According to information he released, a Black female security guard was driving home from the bar she worked at with her boyfriend in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day when a car carrying a group of people who all appeared to be minors slammed into them.

Police yellow line on traffic accident scene (Getty Images)

After the crash, the woman FaceTimed her mother on her phone and called her insurance agent with her boyfriend’s phone, while the minor who was allegedly driving the other car called his mother, father, and stepfather to the scene.

After they arrive, the minor tells his parents that the woman pointed a gun at them. Although she was armed and licensed to carry as a security guard, she reportedly never drew her weapon.

It was at that point that the two men attacked her and her boyfriend, according to the video. The minor also apparently joined in. Before the group fled the scene, someone reached into her car and stole her phone. Then, they drove off.

However, the group didn’t know that the woman had her mother on FaceTime on the phone they stole and that her sister was recording the call.

Source: ‘They Think They’re…Superior’: Black Couple Allegedly Attacked By White Group After Detroit Car Crash

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Not Fired: ‘Racist’ Texas Teacher Who Told Students White People Are ‘Superior’ Keeps Job, For Now https://philadelphiaobserver.com/not-fired-racist-texas-teacher-who-told-students-white-people-are-superior-keeps-job-for-now/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:37:07 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=4349 Inside of a First Grade Classroom

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If there is a fireable offense in one school district in north Texas, open and avowed racism and white supremacy are apparently not on the list.

At least, that’s what seemed to be the case after a viral video showed a white teacher at a middle school in suburban Austin telling his students that he believed he and other white people are members of the “superior” race. Despite the levels of egregious racism unabashedly displayed by a person charged with educating the youth, the teacher at Bohls Middle School in the city of Pflugerville was not fired and instead only placed on administrative leave, local news outlet KVUE reported.

The teacher was not immediately identified, but the Pflugerville Independent School District (ISD) declined to take decisive disciplinary action for what it simply labeled “inappropriate conversation,” a term that appeared to whitewash the admittedly racist nature of the teacher’s words.

The nearly one-minute-long clip opens abruptly with the teacher, a white man, calmly explaining to his class that he is “ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one.”

The young students appear in disbelief, with one Black student asking if the teacher believes that “white is better than all.”

Another Black student asks if the teacher is “racist,” to which he replies: “I think everybody’s a racist.”

When asked again if he is racist, the teacher shakes his head yes and does not say no.

Pflugerville ISD Superintendent Dr. Douglas Killian issued an apology to students and parents but stopped short of saying whether the teacher would be fired. Instead, Killian said an “investigation” was underway. It’s unclear what else there was to investigate since video evidence exists of the teacher professing white supremacy rhetoric to middle school students.

Source: Not Fired: ‘Racist’ Texas Teacher Who Told Students White People Are ‘Superior’ Keeps Job, For Now

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