Racist school superintendent in Texas

[MU82]

Lynn Redden, the superintendent of the Onalaska Independent School District about 75 north of Houston, wasn't happy that Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans lost 20-17 to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. So he posted this comment under a Houston Chronicle article on Facebook: 

"That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I've seen in the NFL. When you
need precision decision making you can't count on a black quarterback."

https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Texans-Deshaun-Watson-superintendent-Lynn-Redden-13241462.php

As you can see in the article I linked, this effen bozo tried to defend himself in two ways:

1. He thought he was talking in private to a friend.

Because, you know, it's OK for a school superintendent (or anybody else) to be a racist as long as he practices his "craft" in private.

2. As part of his non-apology apology, Redden said he was referring to the statistical success of black NFL quarterbacks, adding that they "have had limited success" throughout the league's history.

Yep, keep digging, buddy. You're gonna need a bigger shovel.

The school board is meeting Saturday to discuss the issue (and, theoretically, Redden's future), but several parents are supporting their racist superintendent:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Onalaska-ISD-school-board-to-discuss-13238893.php

Cindi Rivera, whose daughter attended school in the district for 13 years before graduating in 2017, said ... Redden is a man of integrity and strong morals.

"This is not the man who stood up last June [during graduation] and told us about our kids and how we need to raise our kids," Rivera said.

She said Redden has been the superintendent at least since her daughter attended elementary school.  His Facebook comment shocked her, she said, because she hasn't heard him make any racist or defamatory comments to students or parents.

She still backs him as a person, she said.

"He helped all of us raise our kids," she said, later adding, "This man backs every single student."

Well, there's nothing like a racist with integrity! I used to ask racists to help raise my kids all the time.

The Texans rallied around Watson and ripped Redden, with Coach Bill O'Brien saying:

"Deshaun represents everything that's right about football and life. It's amazing that BS exists, but it does."

Actually, not very amazing at all. This is life everyday for people of color in this country. What's amazing is that there really are people who think racism no longer exists -- and even people who think "reverse racism" is a bigger problem in America than actual racism.

It's 2018 ... and we still have a LOOOOONG way to go, folks.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I had no idea Jay Cutler was black.

[GGGG]

"This is not the man who stood up last June [during graduation] and told us about our kids and how we need to raise our kids," Rivera said.

Uh...so it's a good thing to have a school superintendent telling us "how we need to raise our kids?"

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Uh...so it's a good thing to have a school superintendent telling us "how we need to raise our kids?"

Don't mess with Texas.

[MU82]

Uh...so it's a good thing to have a school superintendent telling us "how we need to raise our kids?"

Yep, there's so much troubling about this whole deal.

[GGGG]

Yep, there's so much troubling about this whole deal.

I bet the Venn diagram of those who support this guy, and those who "don't want the gubmint telling us what to do" are pretty much overlapping circles.

Yet they don't see the irony.

[Jockey]

Yet, Watson took the high road and did not criticize the creep.

Of course, if he didn't, he would have to put up with a tweet storm about how he is destroying the NFL. Not to mention the death threats that would have poured in from the christian right.

[Jockey]

In the same vein.....

MADISON - An African-American woman who will join the state Assembly in January had police called on her last month when she was campaigning in a predominantly white neighborhood in Madison.

A week before Shelia Stubbs won the Democratic primary for the 77th Assembly District, Stubbs was knocking on doors on Madison's west side when a neighbor called police, according to a police report.


When do we get to send all these white people back to Europe where they belong?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

In the same vein.....

MADISON - An African-American woman who will join the state Assembly in January had police called on her last month when she was campaigning in a predominantly white neighborhood in Madison.

A week before Shelia Stubbs won the Democratic primary for the 77th Assembly District, Stubbs was knocking on doors on Madison's west side when a neighbor called police, according to a police report.


When do we get to send all these white people back to Europe where they belong?

District 77 is super liberal, in the 75-100% democrat vote in the 2016 presidential election.    Includes Shorewood Hills, Monroe St area and west of UW campus, as well as most of the south side.

Lots of limousines in that district.

[tower912]

Character revealed.  But this thread should not have been started.

[mu_hilltopper]

Racism, bad.  Next.