Racially Charged Tweet on Ferguson Shooting Gets TX Teacher Fired

[lawildcat]

Obviously, I cannot post the tweet but it is in the article.

 

 

Racially-charged tweet on Ferguson shooting to get Texas teacher fired | Fox News

 

A Texas teacher who posted a profanity-filled tweet over the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. -- telling those who disagreed with her to "kill themselves" -- is being fired, school officials said Monday.

 

Vinita Hegwood, an English teacher at Duncanville High School, was suspended without pay Monday pending her discharge after posting a "reprehensible" message on her personal Twitter account, according to the Duncanville Independent School District.

[spindoc]

She gone.

[tcjkbt]

One lesson to be learned: Don't tweet.

[PurplePride92]

#shegone

 

#shedumb

[MentschTrachtGottLacht]

.....

 

I don't know what is more offensive, that she called them duck...crackers, or that an English teacher actually typed that tweet.

 

Don't blame the medium, twitter doesn't offend people, people offend people.

[spindoc]

Paging Herm Edwards.....

[00Rocket28]

Good

[spindoc]

All my fellow duck crackers, fight the power.

 

[lawildcat]

[Bluto]

Hegwood described herself (on her Twitter account):

 

"...Still defining and fine tuning the awesomeness that is me," it read.

[nkuclubbaseball19]

Must of sent the tweet from an iPhone. Never once have I wanted to say duck but somehow Apple believes I use it all the time.

[MentschTrachtGottLacht]

Must of sent the tweet from an iPhone. Never once have I wanted to say duck but somehow Apple believes I use it all the time.

 

Funny, as I say all the time, "...I NEVER mean 'ducking'". :banana:

[00Rocket28]

Funny' date=' as I say all the time, "...I NEVER mean 'ducking'". :banana:[/quote']

 

Yea, any version of duck, ducking, ducked, ducker, ducks, are some of my favorite words

[JokersWild24]

Must of sent the tweet from an iPhone. Never once have I wanted to say duck but somehow Apple believes I use it all the time.

 

Funny, as I say all the time, "...I NEVER mean 'ducking'". :banana:

 

 

Except the time you used it like you did there.

[JokersWild24]

I will say this, I'd like to see what she said it in response to.

 

I see a HUGE difference between a response in kind and an unprovoked message like she sent and one where she responded to something just as bad or worse than what she said (which I'm kind of thinking here).

 

If I go to a Spurs game tomorrow and go "You are an (something worse than idiot) Tim Duncan. Your political beliefs are stupid. I hope you and your family burns alive." and he responds with "I hope your parents die", then it's kind of different than if he sees me wearing the opposing team's shirt and saying, "Spurs suck, I hope you lose" and giving the same response.