Louisiana math teacher ‘disciplined’ for lengthy, racist Facebook comment
In a racist Facebook rant, a Louisiana high school teacher minimized the history of slavery and said that Black people should “stop acting like animals,” angering parents who saw the post and who then reported it to the school.
Slidell High School mathematics teacher Valerie Scogin made the now-deleted Facebook comment on a graduate’s post last week, according to the New Orleans Advocate, essentially taking a tour through basic racist talking points. Screenshots show Scogin seemed to think she has a solution for all Black people’s woes. Her first suggestion, “They don’t have to live in that country, they could go back,” essentially boils down to “go back to Africa.” The post continues to go downhill from there.
Scogin blames Black people for slavery, saying “it was their own people s...