WATCH | 'I think my race is the superior one', white Texas teacher tells students
Texas school teacher sacked for racist remark.
A white teacher from the Bohls Middle School in Pflugerville, Texas, was fired from the school after a video of him telling his students that he is ethnocentric deep within and thinks his race is superior was posted online and went viral. The teacher can be seen in the viral video saying, "I think my race is the superior one".The video was recorded by a student in which the entire conversation between the studentsand the teachercan be heard. The incident happened last Thursday. Later,the teacher got fired from the school.
The video was recorded by a 13-year-old student, Karmello Lullen, who said after the incident, "I respected him, but I don't have respect for him anymore."Lullen shared the video on his Instagram account, writing, "crazy this happened at my school to me and my friends."
Watch here | Texas teacher's racist remarks in front of students
In the video, the teacher can be heard saying, "Deep down in my heart, I'm ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one."
Listening to this, all the students reacted in shock and tried to point to the teacher about what he was saying. One of the students asked, saying, "You said 'I am racist'", to which the teacher replied, "I am".
At the end of the video, the teacher reiterated that he was being honest with them, and in an attempt to explain to the students that he likes all people but that he's just saying what nobody wants to say, he addedthat"everybody's racist at thatlevel".
Reacting to the entire incident, Lullen's mother said, "I don’t want him teaching any other students, I feel like he’s going to be racially profiling them, and that affects their education."
The teacher was later fired from the school by the Pflugerville Independent School District Superintendent. Superintendent Douglas Killian said in a statement that the teacher,whose name has not been made public, is no longer employed by the district school.
(With inputs from agencies)
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