Looks like this Halloween season is succeeding in bringing out the scariest parts of people.
A high school teacher in Akron, Ohio is under fire after he posted a racist Facebook rant about trick-or-treaters on his page. Apparently, Firestone High School teacher David Spondike, 51, was not too happy about kids from the “ghetto” coming to his home for candy.
The rant was sent to a local news station by an anonymous Facebook friend of Spondike’s. His language clearly offended viewers and when they lashed out at him for his choice words, he had this to say:
“That [racial slur] word more than 25 times a day in a public school, where it is used thousands of times every day by black people.”
“I wish Firestone High School, and I am sure at other schools would stop openly and unabashedly using the word [racial slur],” he wrote.
“Racism is racism and to allow one race to use [a] word and not another IS racist. What I said was absolutely NOT racist by any stretch of the imagination.”
He continued in other posts:
“If you want to go after racists, go after racists,” he wrote. “If you want to be a language policeman, I suggest you find yourself in a George Orwell novel. When I try to get the teenagers in my school to stop using the word [racial slur], I only get laughed at.”
He offered an apology, but it was too late. He’s been placed on administrative leave and the school released a statement calling his behavior “unprofessional and unbecoming.” He is currently being investigated.
SOURCE: Gawker | PHOTO CREDIT: Facebook
