A white secretary at a Louisiana school resigned from her position late last week after making racist comments about Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a text conversation with a coach. I am so confused, because the Supreme Court tells us racism doesn’t really exist in the South anymore! Via the Daily Beast:
In a Monday Facebook post, self-described artist-activist-organizer Walter Geno McLaughlin shared a video that included an image of Nelwyn Fontana, the office secretary at Ouachita Parish Junior High School, along with a screenshot of the alleged text messages, which referred to “n****r day.”
A local outlet reported that the messages—which were confirmed by officials—were sent to a coach at the school, who was stunned by what they’d received.
“Nelwyn Fontana is office secretary at Ouachita Jr High in Monroe, LA and took time on this #MLKDay to let us know how she really feels about honoring Dr. King,” McLaughlin wrote in the post. “What she didn’t realize is that she accidentally sent her hate filled message to the wrong person.”
They allowed her to resign. She should have been fired.
