*A white secretary at a Louisiana school has resigned after making racist comments about Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
According to the Daily Mail, Newlyn Poland Fontana, the (now former) office secretary at Ouachita Parish Junior High School, sent a text to her colleague referring to Martin Luther King day as “n***er day.”
In a Monday Facebook post, the text conversation was shared by artist and activist Walter Geno McLaughlin, who noted that “These are the type of people we entrust to educate our children.”
Another Facebook user shared the text messages and added (in a now-deleted post), “God is exposing some folks.”
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A local outlet confirmed that the disgusting messages were sent to a coach at the school.
“N****r day lol mark Luther king,” she wrote, according to the screenshot.
“Huh ? Say what? Where that come from,” the person who received the text responded.
“Remind your play[ers] Sunday [we’re] off Monday. For Mark Luther King Day Monday,” Fontana continued, clearly confused about King Jr.’s first name.
“Nelwyn Fontana is office secretary at Ouachita Jr High in Monroe, LA and took time on this #MLKDay to let us know how she really feels about honoring Dr. King,” McLaughlin wrote in the Facebook post. “What she didn’t realize is that she accidentally sent her hate filled message to the wrong person.”
McLaughlin continued: “These are the type of people we entrust to educate our children. …From what I understand the school district allowed her to resign but there are many who feel like she should’ve been terminated.”
After the vile text messages went viral, Principal Darren Wheeler confirmed the secretary is no longer employed by the school.
“Unfortunately on Friday evening, a text message which contained a racial slur from an employee was brought to our attention,” the principal wrote in a letter to parents. “That employee is no longer employed by the Ouachita Parish School System. We do not condone any racism in our schools and community.”
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