Trent Bennett (Malvern Hig School).
Facebook, Oh Facebook XIV. A Science teacher in Arkansas has been saying nasty things about President Obama and the First Lady. You won’t need three whole guesses to figure out the nature of the remarks. Parents aren’t terribly pleased with Mr. Bennett.
Parents want an Arkansas teacher out of the classroom after he compared Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee — and then called the president a “spider monkey.”
Trent Bennett, a science teacher at Malvern High School, apparently made the comments on his personal Facebook page, reported KARK-TV.
One post refers to “Michelle Obummer … America’s First Chimp,” and the teacher then doubled down on his racist comments when a Facebook friend questioned him.
Bennett described the First Lady as a “nasty chimp,” and he called President Barack Obama a “spider monkey.”
He also complained about “monkeys” rioting after the police shootings of black Americans, and said protests during the American Revolution era were more valid because they were over taxation.
Chimps. Monkeys. You’d think a science teacher would have at least gone with ape, but I have a sneaking suspicion that perhaps Mr. Bennett doesn’t believe humans are apes. Anyroad, this comparison is as old as the hills and beyond tiresome. All you bigoted asswipes, you are in desperate need of new material. Good luck finding any, I have noted over the years that bigots aren’t terribly creative. Too much brain atrophy.
School officials have launched an investigation into Bennett’s social media activity, which they described as “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Parents and civil rights activists say Bennett should quit or be removed from his job over his comments.
“Someone like Mr. Bennett that has his mindset and believes this, has no business molding the minds of children that will lead us into the future,” said Rizelle Aaron, president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP. “If the allegations are true, he needs to resign, if he doesn’t, then the NAACP will do everything we have legally to make sure he is terminated.”
Here’s hoping this creep does get kicked out. He has absolutely no business around children, with that amount of poison leaking out of him all over the place.
Via Raw Story.
That person has no place teaching children. No not even a bunch of totally lily white children because spreading hate is not teaching and nobody can tell me he could stop being a hateful bastard during class.
People who are bigoted, that bigotry always leaks out, one way or the other, and the poison spreads. I have no doubt he thinks he’s okay to teach and that he’s fair, and all that, but his point of view is clouded with venom.
Especially lily white children shouldn’t be taught by him. Most especially.
Because while they might not be necessarily hurt by his words and horrible thoughts, they will almost certainly carry them forward into their own lives and opinions. Just no.