The Boondocks S02E11 Teacher Tells Riley To Sit Down N**** Clip

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00:00It's a derogatory racial remark that has divided people for many years.

00:14And a J. Edgar Hoover elementary teacher has now been suspended over calling a student the N-word.

00:20Stacey Renee investigates what happened and why.

00:23And what did he say specifically to you?

00:25He said, sit down, nigga.

00:27Riley Freeman is a third-grade student at J. Edgar Hoover elementary school.

00:31He's a basketball player, an avid reader, and one day hopes to spread his philosophy through rap music.

00:36He was in class when he had a verbal exchange with his teacher, Joe Petto.

00:40But Mr. Petto said it was Riley who used the N-word first.

00:43So I told him to take his seat, and here comes this barrage of insults.

00:47I mean, some of the words I've never even heard before.

00:51And I was just stunned.

00:52And I said, well, sit down, nigga.

00:54I just repeated the insult back to him because that's what I've been trained to do.

00:59That is not what he's been trained to do.

01:01School superintendent Donald Richards says all teachers are taught to use appropriate hyphenated euphemisms instead of racial slurs.

01:08We have a very strict policy against teachers using the N-word or any other racially insensitive words.

01:14The district's policy is that teachers should always say N-word instead of the actual N-word.

01:19Or S-word instead of saying the actual S-word.

01:22What is the S-word?

01:23Well, I don't want to say it, but...

01:25Spick?

01:26No, no.

01:28Spear-chucker.

01:29Spear-chucker?

01:30Yes.

01:30See, we would encourage our teachers to say S-word instead of spear-chucker.

01:36And how often do you have a problem with faculty saying spear-chucker to students?

01:40We don't.

01:40That's what I'm saying.

01:42They would say S-word.

01:43But Riley Freeman denies he used the N-word first.

01:46He said I used the word before, but I didn't.

01:49I wouldn't use that word ever.

01:51That word hurts people.

01:52Oh, I remember those proud days marching with Dr. Martin Luther King.

01:58We used to hear that hateful word all the time.

02:01Robert Jebediah Freeman, Riley's grandfather, says the incident takes him back to the civil rights movement.

02:06Oh, what sad times these are, when educators can go around willy-nilly calling our kids the N-word.

02:13Me and my boy have suffered tremendous unspecified mental and physical damage from this.

02:17Mr. Pedo claims the version of nigger ending in grr is the racial slur, but that he was using a different version of the word ending in guh.

02:25That means the same as buddy or best pal.

02:27He insists that he was using the friendly version of the N-word to better relate to Riley.

02:32I used the word, I admit it.

02:34I thought there was a difference between nigger and nigger.

02:39I thought I understood this whole thing, but I guess I don't.

02:41I need help.

02:43Whenever I hear the rappers, they say,

02:45Nigger!

02:46It's in all the music.

02:48Look, look, look.

02:49Rap songs that use the word nigger in a positive way.

02:52There's tons of them.

02:52Look, real nigger roll call.

02:54Niggers bleed.

02:55Jigger my nigger.

02:56Niggers for life.

02:57Real niggers don't die.

02:59Shame on a nigger.

03:00Suck a nigger.

03:01Ain't no nigger.

03:02The school is investigating the incident, but in the meantime, Mr. Pedo has been put on unpaid leave.

03:08I just couldn't believe it because nobody ever called me a nigger before.

03:12And how did it make you feel?

03:14Like I was less than a person.

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