School board chief won’t resign over racist videos: ‘Nothing illegal about having bad taste’

[savalez]

Rigler produced “Rigler Report” YouTube videos under the monicker “CrackrocKid.” In them he gave a conservative, prankster-ish take on inflammatory topics like slavery, sexual assault and President Barack Obama’s supposedly foreign birth.

For instance, on the topic of race, Rigler said that “if it were not for the institution of slavery,” African-Americans “would not exist.”

Slavery, “abominable” as it may have been, was integral to “creating the agricultural infrastructure which feeds a great part of the world.”

In one prank phone call, Rigler posed as an African-American woman named Bonita Williams and said that he was calling from “the Office of Pre-Emptive Reparations,” a gambit that played into a long-standing right-wing bogeyman, the idea that black Americans will demand financial reparations from whites as recompense for their ancestors’ enslavement.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/school-board-chief-wont-resign-over-racist-videos-nothing-illegal-about-having-bad-taste/

Petition: http://www.change.org/p/charles-bradley-rigler-resign-from-the-fairfield-school-board?share_id=WFwhJgQkeU&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition

We, the undersigned, have no confidence in Mr. Charles Bradley Rigler as Fairfield Area School District Board of Education president.

A. We believe Mr. Charles Bradley Rigler has violated the Board Policy 1310.1 "Any citizen of this Commonwealth, having a good moral character...... shall be eligible to the office of school director therein provided That" [Sec. 322] He has done this in the following manner:

a. His controversial and inflammatory YouTube video channel, The Rigler Report.

b. Based on public documents found though the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation, he failed to file Annual/Personal Property Return filing in the years of 2007, 2008 and 2012.

B. Given that Mr. Richard Mathews was nominated while under Mr. Rigler's guidance as president, we believe this nomination is in violation of the Sunshine Act as well as our first amendment rights and should be rescinded.

This is a National petition all are welcome to sign and show their support!

[dlwickham]

1. he's right about it not being illegal

but no one like this should be in any position of authority

[savalez]

2. Doesn't seem to fit

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the "good moral character" clause in the Board Policy.

[Aristus]

4. Anyone who apologizes for slavery is utterly devoid of good moral character.

n/t

[In_The_Wind]

5. Indeed

[sakabatou]

7. +1

[shenmue]

3. If he is not serving all his constituents with fairness and respect,

he is taking tax money for no reason. In my part of town, that's called theft and fraud.

[savalez]

6. He's probably one of those

small gub'mint knuckleheads too.