'It’s f*cking racist’: Watch a black teen confront his white teacher who insists on using the N-word

Students angrily confronted a white New Orleans teacher who insisted he could use the most notorious racial slur because it had been drained of its meaning through overuse.

Video recorded Thursday by students at Ben Franklin High School, recently ranked as Louisiana's top public high school, showed the permanent substitute teacher explaining his position as students angrily and profanely challenged him, reported The Times-Picayune.

"That's racist as sh*t," one black student says to the teacher, identified only as "Coach Ryan." "Why can you not understand that it's racist for a white man to say 'n****r' to a black man? It's f*cking racist."

The student then turns to a white classmate and asks if he'd ever use the racial slur, and the other boy agrees he would not, and the black teen then rhetorically asks the rest of his classmates if they would.

"F*ck no, they wouldn't say 'n****r,'" he tells the teacher.

The teacher asks the teen if he knows what a "commoditized word" means, and the student asks him to explain the term.

"It's a word that's used so many times that it doesn't mean its original meaning," the teacher says. "The word has been commoditized so that anyone can use it, and it's not a negative connotation."

The student argues that it would have a negative connotation for the teacher to use it to describe him, but the teacher asks why rappers use the racial slur in songs.

"If you say the word, it means friend, but if I say the word, it means something different," the teacher says.

The teen says the meaning changes, based on the speaker's race, and the teacher insists that's not true.

"Not if you want the world to move on," the teacher says. "If you want this world to be the way it was 50 years ago, then you're true -- you're right."

The teenager tries to explain the difference between the full word, n****r, and the truncated colloquialism, n***a.

"Nobody says n****r," the teacher says, as the teen explodes and his classmates giggle nervously.

"Don't f*cking say that," the boy says. "You can't say 'n****r' or 'f*cking n****r' ... you're my f*cking teacher, don't say that sh*t."

The teacher tries to argue that he could use the word as part of an academic lesson on its history, but the student angrily slams a book down on a desk and tells the teacher to stop using the racial slur.

"Please, it's a word," the teacher says. "You cannot go through life acting like a word can affect you."

Students went after class to the principal's office to stage a sit-in, but that turned into an impromptu, hour-long assembly on race and racism, the newspaper reported.

The school, which is overseen by the Orleans Parish School Board, is one of the most diverse in New Orleans -- with 40 percent white students, 31 percent black, 16 percent Asian, 7 percent Hispanic and 6 percent multi-racial.

Another Franklin teacher also used a racial slur during this school year, students said on social media.

Franklin alumni started an online petition after the latest incident pledging to withhold donations until meaningful action was taken by the school.

The teacher was not on campus Thursday afternoon, and school officials said an investigation of the incident could take several days before any potential disciplinary action was taken.

Coach Ryan really lost his damn mind pic.twitter.com/2k2DUI16Ow

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