I Was Fired For Using N-Word

This news story caused my mother to use her cellphone to txt me “u must get the paper today.”  I think this is only the second or third time she has figured out how to do this on a phone, so I knew it had to be somewhat important.  After talking with her, she made me buy copies of the local Waltham newspaper, which had this as the main, above the fold headline: “Principal: I was fired for n-word”

To give more background, this guy Peter Silverman used to be the principle at my old elementary school (long after I attended), where my mother currently works.  She never liked him and would say he had asperger’s syndrome.  He left that job after allegedly having an affair with a teacher (who’s husband worked at the same school, and whom she had four kids with, they are now divorced).  Eventually he became principal at Waltham’s Plympton Elementary School.  On February 9th this year he “mysteriously stopped working as principal.”

The article is pretty entertaining, Silverman claims he was fired after quoting the John Lennon song “Woman is the Nigger of the World” to show his support for two teachers.  These are quotes by Silverman that made it into the article:

“I think it would have been better if I hadn’t said it. I used the wrong analogy – I use analogies all the time, with kids and adults. It’s the only way I’ve ever used the word ‘nigger.’”

“Some people said it would have been fine if I had said, ‘low man on the totem pole’ – yet to Native Americans, that would have been offensive. It’s part of our colloquial speak.”

So to make sure you understand this along with me, Silverman states he only uses the n-word in analogies, which he uses all the time, including with kids.  And offensive words (apparently the n-word) are apart of our colloquial speak.  He also repeated the word ‘nigger’ in the interview, and took a shot at Native Americans for no reason.   Well done sir, I think this makes you a Corporate Thuggin’ Honorary Member.

If there was one thing I could always say about Silverman, it is that he is photogenic: