WEBVTT - DONKEY: School Suspends Teacher For Using Racial Slur & Student For Recording Him 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.480 It's time for Donkey of the day. Donkeys of the day. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.800 I'm a Democrat, so being Donky of the day is 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.640 a little bit of a mixed so like a donkey deal. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.680 Okay, Don'tky of to day wreck the club bitches. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three years. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.400 That donkey of the day is a new white. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.599 Yes, donkey today for Thursday, May eighteenth, goes to Glendale 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.280 High School in Missouri. Uh and an unnamed teacher at 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.000 Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri. See, there is a 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.360 fifteen year old young Caucasian girl named Mary Walton who 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.919 goes to Glendale High School. Dropping the clues bombs from 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.599 Mary Walton. Okay, she was in geometry class, minding her 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.280 business when her teacher tried to put together a geometric 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.239 sequence that simply doesn't add up. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.440 All right. See, there's this word. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.120 That no matter how many times you tell people they 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.440 shouldn't use it, they will find a way, all right, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.440 doesn't matter what race the person is. We all know 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.600 the historical context of the word. We know why the 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.279 words shouldn't be used by anyone. I don't care if 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.840 you think it's a term of endearment or our racial slur. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.279 It's a word that is divisive and it's just too 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.680 much blood and baggage on it for it to ever 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:06.400 be positive. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.559 But yet we can't keep it out of our mouth. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:09.160 All Right. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.920 The word I'm referring to is the N word. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.760 All Right. I wanted to say it so bad, but 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.400 I'm trying not to. I've been trying not to for years. Okay, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.759 By the way, I really haven't found a better way 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.800 to describe these ninjas than the N word. Matter of fact, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.600 I want to apologize to all ninjas out there. Why 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:24.400 do we do that to them? 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:24.759 Okay? 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.520 Why is ninja's a default for the N word? We 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.680 love ninjas? But back to the N word. This young 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.600 fifteen year old Caucasian girl, Mary Walton, was suspended because 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.880 she recorded her teacher repeatedly saying the N word. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.640 Yes, I told you. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.399 They was in geometry class and Mary's teacher presented a 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.800 problem she didn't have an answer for. And guess what 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.280 the reason I'm not saying the teacher's name is because 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.800 they didn't release it. I didn't give us the teacher's name. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.840 They released the young minder's name, but not the teacher. Why, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.480 I don't know, but we do have audio. This is 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.920 the teacher presenting this problem to his geometry class. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.520 Let's listen. I don't word at all, but I don't know. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.480 It was like when when a black person is using 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.360 it towards another black person, it's the same. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.680 How is it not? Still I don't I don't get it. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:19.440 I mean, I can't say right. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.919 Now as a teacher, if you want to keep your job, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.840 this isn't the I'm calling anyone. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.040 I understand. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.760 I wish we didn't bleep the word. I mean in 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.520 that context. I feel like we should use it for 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.880 research purposes. But I agree with the teacher that when 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.079 a black person uses it towards another black person, it's 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.520 still a derogatory word. I don't use the word in 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.960 that context, like how YG used it on my N 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.880 word of how stupid c Murder used it on down 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.120 for my N words. Now, sadly, I use it the 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.000 way the white man intended it to be used. Okay, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.720 but this teacher is fullish. Okay, if he's smart enough 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.680 to say he doesn't like the word at all, then 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.440 why is he using it at all? 0:02:58.680 --> 0:02:59.000 Okay? 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.200 If you can acknowledge me the teacher that you don't 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.560 like the word, and the word seems derogatory no matter 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.080 how you use it or who uses it, then why 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:07.079 are you using it? 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.640 And more importantly, you. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.840 Heard the student a student, okay, one of those youngsters. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.760 And that's why these youngsters give me hope for the future. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.360 One of those students said to him, don't say it 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.680 if you want to keep your job. If a student 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.760 tells you that, and then you still continue to use 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.079 the word, and then even you know, after other students. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.679 Said don't say it, your response is you can say it. Well, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.160 who gave you permission to say it? 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.360 And how did you come to that conclusion after acknowledging 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.200 that you don't like the word. This is beyond confusing, okay, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.320 But what's even more confusing is the fact that Glendale 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.240 High School suspended the fifteen year old girl for recording 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.080 what you just heard. I can't make this up. Let's 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.040 go to CNN for the report. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.440 Police video shared on social media shows a high school 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.360 teacher using the N word at least twice in a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.280 Missouri classroom. Mary Walton, a fifteen year old student, disturbed, 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.000 began filming The teacher was initially placed on and minused 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.560 straight of leave. A week later, that teacher has resigned, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.600 but Mary was also punished suspend it for three days 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.320 over the recording. The school district says its discipline is 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.520 quote confidential per federal law, but noted that the student 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:21.120 handbook limits inappropriate use of electronics and considers the identification 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.080 of minor students when disseminating video. The school district also 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.360 prohibits quote recording of faculty or staff in the classroom 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:35.760 without prior approval, and recording quote acts of violence. Ho 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.520 claims that the policy is problematic and it has a 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.560 chilling effect on students like Mary looking to hold authority 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.160 figures accountable. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.039 Oh, it's just in the Daily Mail reports the teacher's 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.320 name is Kenneth Bowling. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.840 Oh we got a name, Kenneth Bowling. He's the teacher's name. Look. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.800 Wait, the first one is to tell kids, if you 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.000 see something, say something. But I guess in this case 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.080 is if you see something, say some unless that's something 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.440 is racism. And I understand it's rules and regulations, but 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.520 you do know you're punishing this little girl for doing 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.359 the right thing. So let's just say the school has 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.039 a no recording policy. But if this teacher was, you know, 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.200 God forbid, assaulting another student or you know, whether it's 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.960 sexually or verbally, is someone not supposed to record that? 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.760 You're definitely deterring kids from keeping track of teachers of 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.520 misbehavior by suspending Young Mary, because the next time a 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.320 student sees or here's a teacher doing something wrong, they 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.400 gonna mind their damn business because they don't want to 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.880 get in trouble. This is like that law in Arizona 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.000 that bans people from recording police. A lot of people 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.640 in Arizona protested against that because it violates their First 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.200 Amendment rights and it keeps them from holding police accountable. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.919 Not that police really care that they're on camera, but 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.719 you understand my point. Look, there is plenty of times 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.480 when a person recording should be held accountable. For example, Okay, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.200 if somebody set up the tripod and hit record for R. Kelly, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.520 absolutely makes perfect sense to discipline them. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.200 For their recordings. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.960 But when a child is being verbally abused by their 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.480 teacher with racist words, it doesn't matter what the school 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.479 policy is on filming. That young lady should be treated 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.440 as a hero and celebrated. Okay, I don't care what 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:03.600 the student handbook says. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:03.960 I get it. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.680 It says students are prohibited from using cell phones to 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.880 make audio or visual recordings. The faculty are staff. But 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.560 what school is going to give a child permission to 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.320 record a teacher saying the N word? 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:15.719 None? 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.039 Okay, So this is a perfect example of Look, sometimes 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.400 two wrongs do make a right. According to the laws 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.479 the culture, the teacher was wrong for using the N word, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.400 and according to the laws of the student handbook, the 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.880 student was wrong for recording him. But this student was 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.200 also right because dumb ass people got to be held accountable. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.080 And if that teacher thought he had a pass to 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.040 use the N word, he now know he doesn't. In fact, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.720 one could argue Mary saved that teacher's life Kenneth Boling, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.320 because if Kenneth Boling would have used the word the 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.640 N word around the wrong. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.040 N words, it'd have been bad for him. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.800 Please let mem Ma give Glendale High School and then 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.760 unnamed teacher the biggest he haw. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:02.240 He haw, he ha. You stupid, mother, are you dumb? 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:03.960 You just got you just said the tea his name 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.719 Kenneth Bowling. Yeah, you said the unnamed teacher. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.800 I'm sorry Kenneth Boland. I'm proud of yes, I know, man, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.640 because it's very hard to say the N word. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.280 Back to back to back. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.360 Now, I'm very roll, like you know, you just be 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.320 wanting to say, he know, yeah, I'm very proud of 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.200 your saying nigga. I mean, you didn't say the N 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.600 word one time during that. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:20.840 Who they used their word? 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.320 It just say I won't not practicing bad habits, no niggas, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:25.000 I'm not saying it. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:29.560 I'm sorry you did you See what you did to 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.000 you guys, to see what you did, what you made 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.120 guys tomorrow, see what you made me do? You made 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:35.280 me do? 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:36.040 Yeah? 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.600 Later everybody else, Let's open up the phone lines eight 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.000 hundred five eight five one oh five one. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.760 Now, the ladies of run the World. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.920 We're here earlier this morning, and we were talking about 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:46.320 whole faces. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.840 I feel like this conversation comes up every couple of 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.280 years so often, right, And. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.640 The question is eight hundred five eight five one oh 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.320 five one. Ladies, do you think you need a whole face? 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:56.720 Yes? 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:57.080 You do? 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.000 Men too, yes you do. We wanna talk about when 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.280 come back? You're jumping already? All right, Okay, I got 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.040 cause I need to talk about it all right. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.800 Erica Dutchess, our co host, is here, and that's the question. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.800 Eight hundred and five eight five one oh five to one. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.680 Do you think you need a whole phase? 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.600 Let's talk about it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.040 The Breakfast. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:19.240 Club Donkey today is brought to you by the law 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.240 office of Michael s Lambinsoft. Don't be a donkey. Dob 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.679 pound two fifty on your cell and say the bull. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.200 If you've been hurting a construction accident, that's pound two 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.040 five ozero from your cell and say the bull.