*Marlon Anderson, the security guard who made national headlines after he was fired for telling a student to stop using “n****r,” got his job back.
We previously reported… the student became verbally abusive as Anderson was escorting him out of the school for being disruptive, repeatedly using the N-word. Anderson hurled the word right back at the pupil during his request that the student stop using such foul language.
“Don’t call me that, don’t call me the n-word, and don’t call me [n-word],” Anderson told the student. He was fired shortly after the incident, MSN.com reports. The firing spurred student protests and demands for reinstatement.
“Short story….I get called a bit@# @ss Ni€€A by a student, I responded do ‘not call me ni€€a !’ And I got fired,” Marlon wrote in a Facebook post on 16 October. He also criticized the Madison Metropolitan School District, writing “MMSD I unfortunately expected better.”
After much debate over the issue, The Madison Metropolitan School District rehired Anderson on Monday, according to WISC via Blavity.
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Marlon Anderson, the black school security assistant in Wisconsin who was fired for repeating a racist slur while explaining why it was offensive to a student who used it against him, will be rehired after days of public outcryhttps://t.co/TfTxOjBcE9
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“I’m thankful. I’m blessed, and I’m so happy to be going back and doing what I do,” Anderson said. “I miss the kids. I’m looking forward to hitting the ground running. I’m excited (and) so happy for the kids because they got out and fought for this, and they won. I’m excited to walk back into the school because that’s going to let them know their voices are powerful.”
Music mogul Cher even offered to pay his legal fees if Marlon decided to sue the school district.
“I didn’t expect support from all over the world. I didn’t expect these young people to step up and go on a rally and go down to the Doyle building and say they want me back,” he told WISC. “I didn’t think I was this special.”
Anderson was temporarily hired by the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County while district officials weighed his appeal.
“I feel really good for him,” said Michael Johnson, Boys and Girls Club CEO. “I’m thankful both the superintendent and the school board president over the weekend took our calls. They followed to a T the recommendations we presented to them, and I don’t think we could have asked for a better situation.”
The school district superintendent said on Friday it will review its strict no tolerance policy. However, Marlon wants to see it gone.
“I feel a lot better, but it appears this policy is still intact,” he told Madison 365. “The policy needs to be dealt with as well. I’m still fighting that. I am transitioning my fight. I am no longer just trying to get my job back. I’m fighting to end a policy that’s not effective.”
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