The San Antonio Express-News reports an unidentified San Antonio high school teacher singled out a student as “Mexican” during a class discussion on illegal immigration. Augustine Ortiz, who was wearing a Mexican soccer jersey that day, says that his English teacher had him sit in the front row of the classroom and used him as an example as she proceeded into a diatribe about “Mexicans with their attitudes are the racist ones.” The teacher went on like a buffoon claiming that Mexicans “expect handouts” and that the United States was soon to become the “United States of Mexico” all the while pointing to Ortiz.
Ortiz complained to the principal, after being blown off by the vice principal, who then placed the teacher on administrative leave after obtaining corroborating testimony by other students. Her fate is pending the outcome of an investigation.
This is only going to get worse. Leave it to ugly Arizona with SB 1070 to pick this scab and polarize our people, but then again, maybe this is a fight that is long overdue.