A Texas school counselor is currently in hot water over some racially-laced comments she allegedly left on a local TV station’s Facebook page.
Karon Wright, a counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie, was fired Thursday after the school district found out about the comments she apparently left on WFAA-TV’s Facebook page.
“It’s amazing how the ‘whites’ get angry when Obama speaks. Oh well…its most of the whites who is getting blown away [sic]. So they will soon be wiped from the earth. Lol,” Wright purportedly wrote in response to other Facebook users who had written negative reactions to President Obama’s statement on Wednedsay’s explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, just an hour south of Grand Prairie.
Wright has since claimed her Facebook account was hacked and “the statement that was made is not of my character.”
“I am a school counselor who will never 1) jeopardize my family, 2) jeopardize my job, and 3) jeopardize the trust of the students, parents, staff, faculty, and administration of GPISD,” Wright wrote in a statement to News 8. “I am upset that this statement was posted on the WFAA website without Josh Davis nor WFAA calling the true source to get the true story. I am truly saddened by the tragedies in Boston and West, Texas. I have prayed for those cities and the families whom was impacted for I wish no such catastrophe to happen to ANYONE regardless of race, nationality, etc. This is not and will never be apart of my character or what I stand for.”
The school district said in a statement that Wright’s alleged Facebook post was “highly offensive, insensitive to the tragedy happening to our friends and neighbors in West, and disrespectful to the very human bond that we share with the people of West, especially those who have lost their loved ones.”
Andrew Jackson Middle School has already taken Wright off the roster published on the school website.
h/t WFAA-TV
