Washington Teacher Says He Was Fired for Reading N-Word in Classic Novel

A teacher in Washington state says he lost his job after reading a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” that contained historically accurate racist language out loud to students.

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Great authors of the past, like Harper Lee and Mark Twain, who wished to expose the ugliness of racism, wrote novels with historically accurate language in them, like “n****r.” Anyone who has read first-hand accounts from that time period knows that even black people used the word constantly (as they still do), because it was part of the vernacular. But the ever self-righteous modern leftists — including many who no doubt listen to rap songs littered with the N-word — bash classic novels with this historically accurate vernacular. Teacher Matthew Mastronardi found that

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