Following the video that surfaced regarding a McKinney, Texas pool party, where officer Eric Casebolt pulled out a gun and started waving it in the direction of some black teenagers, not before kneeling on a 14-year-old girl's back for several minutes, Casebolt resigned from the police force. In response to his resignation, Frenship ISD teacher Karen Fitzgibbons posted this message on her Facebook page, which has since been deleted:
"I'm going to just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.' I guess that's what happens when you flunk out of school and have no education. I'm sure their parents are just as guilty for not knowing what their kids were doing; or knew it and didn't care. I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something. Now, let the bashing of my true and honest opinion begin.... GO! #imnotracist #imsickofthemcausingtrouble #itwasagatedcommunity."
Hilariously enough, Ms. Fitzgibbons later attempted to apologize for her rant by saying it "was not directed at any one person or group," adding, "It was not an educational post; it was a personal experience post. ... I apologized to the appropriate people."
Like in most such situations, I'm not sure which was worse, Ms. Fitzgibbons' initial rant or her attempt at an apology.
"[The post] was not directed at any one person or group."
Uh, yes it was...
"I'm going just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.'..."
What was that again you said in your apology, Ms. Fitzgibbons?
"[It] was not directed at any one person or group."
That's what I thought...
What ironically cracked me up even more than the "apology," though, were Ms. Fitzgibbons' hashtags, which included: #imnotracist, #imsickofthemcausingtrouble, and #itwasagatedcommunity. The sequencing of those hashtags is classic as well.
Let's again read what the Bennett Elementary School teacher had to say in her Facebook post:
"I'm going to just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.' I guess that's what happens when you flunk out of school and have no education. I'm sure their parents are just as guilty for not knowing what their kids were doing; or knew it and didn't care. I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something. Now, let the bashing of my true and honest opinion begin.... GO!"
How did she follow that up? "I'm not racist."
It amazes me how some people believe if they say they're not a racist (or sexist, homophobic, etc.), that will thereby negate a racist comment they just uttered or are about to say. It's reminiscent of the, I'm not a racist, but..." line I hear every now and again.
"I'm not a racist, but them Mexicans are all illegal and can't speak no good English!"
With that kind of mentality, do these same individuals believe that if they get caught having an affair with someone, by simply saying, "#imnotanadulterer," that will make it so?
In this case, Karen Fitzgibbons blames blacks for causing all the problems and "racial tension." She then goes on to claim they're all uneducated and have bad parents. Not only that, she goes as far to say she doesn't mind the thought of segregation anymore, because that way blacks can just hurt one another and not the "innocents" (you know, because whites are always innocent...). Yet, following her rant, she actually has the gall to list these hashtags: #imnotracist, #imsickofthemcausingtrouble, and #itwasagatedcommunity? Wow... As I mentioned earlier, even just the sequencing of those hashtags is oddly humorous. She started by saying "#imnotracist" and immediately followed that up with "#imsickofthemcausingtrouble" - "them" meaning blacks, of course ("I'm almost to the point of wanting THEM all segregated..."). So Karen Fitzgibbons went on to showcase herself as a racist in her rant, before attempting to excuse herself of that label by claiming she's not with a hashtag, and then once again going on to showcase herself as a racist with the subsequent hashtag. With a post and hashtags like that, I may have to double-check to make sure this wasn't a piece written by someone at The Onion.
Face it, Karen Fitzgibbons, you're a racist and no hashtag is going to prove otherwise.
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/adam-d-young/2015-06-11/frenship-teacher-deletes-mckinneysegregation-post-creates#.VXmd1_lViko
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/us/mckinney-texas-pool-party-video/
"I'm going to just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.' I guess that's what happens when you flunk out of school and have no education. I'm sure their parents are just as guilty for not knowing what their kids were doing; or knew it and didn't care. I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something. Now, let the bashing of my true and honest opinion begin.... GO! #imnotracist #imsickofthemcausingtrouble #itwasagatedcommunity."
Hilariously enough, Ms. Fitzgibbons later attempted to apologize for her rant by saying it "was not directed at any one person or group," adding, "It was not an educational post; it was a personal experience post. ... I apologized to the appropriate people."
Like in most such situations, I'm not sure which was worse, Ms. Fitzgibbons' initial rant or her attempt at an apology.
"[The post] was not directed at any one person or group."
Uh, yes it was...
"I'm going just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.'..."
What was that again you said in your apology, Ms. Fitzgibbons?
"[It] was not directed at any one person or group."
That's what I thought...
What ironically cracked me up even more than the "apology," though, were Ms. Fitzgibbons' hashtags, which included: #imnotracist, #imsickofthemcausingtrouble, and #itwasagatedcommunity. The sequencing of those hashtags is classic as well.
Let's again read what the Bennett Elementary School teacher had to say in her Facebook post:
"I'm going to just go ahead and say it....the blacks are the ones causing problems and this 'racial tension.' I guess that's what happens when you flunk out of school and have no education. I'm sure their parents are just as guilty for not knowing what their kids were doing; or knew it and didn't care. I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something. Now, let the bashing of my true and honest opinion begin.... GO!"
How did she follow that up? "I'm not racist."
It amazes me how some people believe if they say they're not a racist (or sexist, homophobic, etc.), that will thereby negate a racist comment they just uttered or are about to say. It's reminiscent of the, I'm not a racist, but..." line I hear every now and again.
"I'm not a racist, but them Mexicans are all illegal and can't speak no good English!"
With that kind of mentality, do these same individuals believe that if they get caught having an affair with someone, by simply saying, "#imnotanadulterer," that will make it so?
In this case, Karen Fitzgibbons blames blacks for causing all the problems and "racial tension." She then goes on to claim they're all uneducated and have bad parents. Not only that, she goes as far to say she doesn't mind the thought of segregation anymore, because that way blacks can just hurt one another and not the "innocents" (you know, because whites are always innocent...). Yet, following her rant, she actually has the gall to list these hashtags: #imnotracist, #imsickofthemcausingtrouble, and #itwasagatedcommunity? Wow... As I mentioned earlier, even just the sequencing of those hashtags is oddly humorous. She started by saying "#imnotracist" and immediately followed that up with "#imsickofthemcausingtrouble" - "them" meaning blacks, of course ("I'm almost to the point of wanting THEM all segregated..."). So Karen Fitzgibbons went on to showcase herself as a racist in her rant, before attempting to excuse herself of that label by claiming she's not with a hashtag, and then once again going on to showcase herself as a racist with the subsequent hashtag. With a post and hashtags like that, I may have to double-check to make sure this wasn't a piece written by someone at The Onion.
Face it, Karen Fitzgibbons, you're a racist and no hashtag is going to prove otherwise.
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/adam-d-young/2015-06-11/frenship-teacher-deletes-mckinneysegregation-post-creates#.VXmd1_lViko
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/us/mckinney-texas-pool-party-video/
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