A North Carolina school suspended a white teacher after video surfaced showing him comparing a black student to a slave.
Another student filmed the seventh grade Apex County Middle School teacher giving a black student a lecture about control and slavery, reports the New York Daily News.
“Did I call you nigger? No. I said you’re being controlled by him and that’s exactly what happened to slaves,” the teacher said in the video. “They were controlled by their owners. You’re letting him control you.”
The lecture was apparently prompted by the student laughing at another student’s dance moves.
“It was just surprising that he used that word,” the student told WNCN. “He could have used a better type of analogy or a better word to describe what I was doing instead of calling me a slave.”
Ayona Wilson, the student’s mother, said she removed her son from the school after she learned what happened.
“This was coming from a Caucasian man to an African American student and we’re already in a predominantly white community, a predominantly white school, so for him to use those words, it really hurt my feelings,” Wilson said.
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The school’s principal called families at the school to let them know the teacher had been suspended for his comments as an investigation unfolds.
“While we are not at liberty to discuss confidential personnel information, please be assured that the district takes any complaints against personnel seriously and is committed to fair and thorough investigations and resolutions of such matters,” a transcript of the call reveals.
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