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'You are animals who disgust me': A school board candidate's history of racist Facebook posts
Source: Washington Post
‘You are animals who disgust me’: A school board candidate’s history of racist Facebook posts
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Reporter
August 18 at 4:15 PM
Richard Jankowski used Facebook to spew plenty of race-based vitriol — against former president Barack Obama, NBA player LeBron James or anyone supporting affirmative action — but in August 2014, as protesters poured into the streets over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Janowski boiled over.
“You g—–n animals in Missouri make me sick!” he typed in the public post originally reported by the New Jersey Globe, a political reporting site. “Another black criminal gets killed after assaulting a white cop and you pieces of s–t want justice? You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me.”
Eight months later, Ferguson was on his Facebook page again, as he called for violence against protesters.
“So now I watch videos of the ‘protesters’ throwing trash cans and any other items at any white person they see…….time to start firing bullets into these f—–g monkeys and send them to their graves.”
Jankowski is one of six candidates running for three open seats on the school board in Monroe Township, N.J., about 20 miles northeast of Trenton. In the district’s high school, more than a third of students identify as minorities, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Reporter
August 18 at 4:15 PM
Richard Jankowski used Facebook to spew plenty of race-based vitriol — against former president Barack Obama, NBA player LeBron James or anyone supporting affirmative action — but in August 2014, as protesters poured into the streets over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Janowski boiled over.
“You g—–n animals in Missouri make me sick!” he typed in the public post originally reported by the New Jersey Globe, a political reporting site. “Another black criminal gets killed after assaulting a white cop and you pieces of s–t want justice? You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me.”
Eight months later, Ferguson was on his Facebook page again, as he called for violence against protesters.
“So now I watch videos of the ‘protesters’ throwing trash cans and any other items at any white person they see…….time to start firing bullets into these f—–g monkeys and send them to their graves.”
Jankowski is one of six candidates running for three open seats on the school board in Monroe Township, N.J., about 20 miles northeast of Trenton. In the district’s high school, more than a third of students identify as minorities, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/08/18/you-are-animals-disgust-me-a-school-board-candidates-history-of-racist-facebook-posts/
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