A high school teacher in West Virginia has been suspended after her personal Twitter account was found filled with racially charged tweets. Mary Durstein was suspended, with pay, on Monday, according to the Herald-Dispatch.
The tweet that initially garnered attention was in response to a photo of the four Black people accused of torturing a mentally ill white man in Chicago. “Can you imagine how many riots we would have around the country if the terrorists were white” the tweet read. The photo was captioned, “Imagine if these were 4 white people torturing a special need black kid!”
Durstein tweeted in response, “this could have been Obama’s children.”
