A security guard lost his job after 11 years for telling an unruly student to quit using the N-word by using the word himself.
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin's capital city school district is facing national pressure to reinstate a black high school security guard who was fired this week for saying the N-word while telling an unruly student not to use the racial slur.
Black photographer shot over racial slur: He asked three teens to stop using a racial slur. He was shot 9 times, police say Members of the school's black student union, which includes Anderson's son, met with the district's superintendent and school board president Friday about the episode. In responding to the abusive language, Anderson says he said the word himself in making a point to the student not to use it.
"You can’t eliminate racism by ignoring it — by trying to hide the word or by trying to legislate the word," he said."What if a white student calls a black student an N-word, but doesn’t say the word? It's the intent behind what you’re saying." School board President Gloria Reyes also said in a statement the board plans to review the district's policies governing when staff are disciplined for such language.
The episodes drew months of protesting from Madison residents who accused the district of allowing racist actions and thinking to persist in district schools. Anderson said as a black man, he is in a unique position among the predominantly white staff to teach black children about the problem with using the word as a term of endearment.
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