Sixth-grade teacher delivers 15-minute rant claiming Trump's MAGA slogan is a call to bring segregation back and accuses white students of being descended from mass killers
By Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
March 31, 2018
A sixth-grade teacher has delivered a shocking classroom rant claiming that President Donald Trump wants a return to segregation and accused white students of being the progeny of 'European' mass murderers.
Student Josie Orihuela recorded the incident last month at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, where social studies teacher Johnetta Benton was delivering a lesson for Black History Month.
Josie began recording just after Benton turned off a film the class was watching and pronounced that that 'Make America Great Again' could be a precursor to 'trying to bring back segregation,' the student told Fox News.
'He must be talking about when it was great for Europeans,' Benton says in the recording. 'Because when it comes to minorities, America has never been great for minorities.'
'Cuz when I examine history, I can't remember a time when it was great for anybody other than the Europeans,' Benton continued.
Another male teacher was heard in the classroom interjecting periodically in support of Benton's arguments.
When students tried to reply that Trump's slogan might be a call for a return to stricter legal controls on immigration, such as the nation had before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Benton rejected the notion.
'Because Europeans came from Europe. You are immigrants. You are illegal immigrants. Because you came and just took it... You are an immigrant. This is not your country,' Benton said.
'Before you talk about somebody else look at yourself in the mirror, look at your ancestry in the mirror before you start saying "You're bad, and you're bad and you're bad so you can't come 'cause you happened to have killed a few people" - Well guess what my people have killed millions, not a few. Millions upon millions upon millions - babies and children,' she said, speaking in the voice of a 'European'.
Benton has been a teacher for 18 years, according to her profile on the school website.
J.D. Hardin, the communications coordinator for the Henry County schools in Georgia, called the rant 'extremely unfortunate,' and said that the matter had been 'addressed immediately' in a statement to Fox News.
It was not clear what action had been taken, and Hardin did not immediately reply to a message from DailyMail.com.
'This unfortunate incident affords us to opportunity to remind our educators of the importance of keeping any potential political bias out of lessons for students of any age,' Hardin said.
It comes days after another social studies teacher at the same middle school assigned students to write a letter to lawmakers demanding new restrictions on gun ownership.
Outraged parent William Lee, a law enforcement officer, showed the assignment by teacher Corey Sanders to the police news site Blue Lives Matter.
'For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States,' the assignment read.
Josie's mother, Kimberly Orihuela, also spoke with Blue Lives Matter, saying she had withdrawn her daughter from Hampton Middle over Benton's actions.
'I had to get my kids out of the Henry County schools,' Kimberly said.
'She basically told these children that they were responsible for millions of deaths. Why is she saying that every white child is the descendent of a slave owner? That's just not true,' she said.
'I told my daughter I was proud that she had the nerve to ask the questions – that she called her out on the fact Trump is talking about illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants,' Kimberly said.
'But when she told the kids to go home and look in the mirror and reflect on what their ancestors have done… I had had enough,' the mother said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: That’s teaching them young white devils a lesson.
Hmm, when did Black History Month become Hate White Americans Month?
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