What Do You Mean Inner City Teachers?

Tommy Tuberville's white privilege is a reason for his racist actions.

Auburn University, Ole Miss, University of Cincinnati and every other institution should remove his name immediately. 

I mean c'mon folks: Why do we allow this type of individual into our government?

Too many footballs to the head!?

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is the most disgusting Republican lawmaker in the Senate. He really is an embarrassment to the Republicans. But I don't think they care anymore about how they act in public.

After all, he said that MAGA Republicans are proud "white nationalists" who love America.

So on the Donald Trump, Jr. podcast Triggered, the controversial senator remarks about the inner city.

The Alabama senator decides to insulted teachers by saying that“most of them in the inner city,” by questioning if they “can read and write.”

Tuberville made the comments, which were picked up by Alabama’s AL.com.

"The Covid really brought it out how bad our schools are and how bad our teachers are, in the inner city. Most of them in the inner city, I don’t know how they got degrees," Tuberville said, adding:

I don’t know whether they can read and write. And they want a raise. They want less time to work, less time in school. It’s just, we’ve ruined work ethic in this country. We don’t work at it anymore. We push an easy life."

The Alabama Education Association issued the following statement:

Hearing Senator Tuberville’s recent statements is disheartening to the men and women who choose education as their profession and work daily in Alabama classrooms. Our teachers put their total dedication and time into ensuring students can succeed and thrive – and as a former coach at an Alabama university, he should know the rigor and steps it takes for teachers to receive their degrees and certification.

AEA and many Alabamians know who our teachers are and the work they do. Their heroic actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and what they continue to do has not gone unnoticed and are commendable. As many teachers prepare for a well-deserved summer break, we hope they do not take Senator Tuberville’s statements to heart and understand it for what it is – a political soundbite.

Senator Tuberville’s staff reached out to us to defend the comments, saying they’re being taken out of context. Here is the response from the Senator’s Communications Director:

"In the interview, Coach Tuberville spoke specifically about Baltimore. 23 schools in Baltimore were recently found to have ZERO students who were proficient in math. That’s what Coach was talking about.

As for “inner city” versus suburban schools or rural schools, again there are countless examples of this problem nationwide. Chicago, for example, also had 55 schools without a single student proficient in math and 33 schools without a single student proficient in reading. Four out of five DC students are not proficient in math and two-thirds are not proficient in reading and writing. The list goes on. Coach is far from the first person to criticize inner city schools, and the critics know that.

For one thing, he never lived in Baltimore and he need to focus on his fucking state.

Like he needs to do his job and fucking help Alabamians. They had mass shootings in that fucking state.

It was a dig at the Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD).

This motherfucker better focus on passing the debt ceiling and stop gun violence.