Principal Racist Comment Caught on Camera

The vice principal of a California middle school has been placed on administrative leave after he was caught on a student’s phone camera saying, “I just don’t like the black kids.” Joe DiFilippo, an 18-year vet of the Fresno Unified School District, is under investigation for the incident — and on Tuesday he was the target of a protest that had former students chanting, “I love black people,” and “Black power.”
A spokesperson for the district, Jed Chernabaeff, told Yahoo Parenting that the 18-second video, recorded by a student outside of the Scandinavian Middle School in Fresno and then posted on YouTube, was brought to the administration’s attention last week by parents who had viewed it. A “third-party investigator” is now collecting facts for the district, who will then “respond appropriately,” Chernabaeff says.
In the video, DiFilippo, who looks relaxed and is wearing dark sunglasses, is chatting with some students while one of them records the conversation (it’s unclear whether the vice principal knows if he’s being recorded or not). A student off camera asks him, “Who at this school do you not like?” while another asks, “All of us?” That’s when DiFilippo responds, “I just don’t like the black kids.”
While it was possibly said in jest, many are not finding it funny.
"That’s not a joke," Latricia Medley, the mother of a Scandinavian student, told ABC 30. “That’s not a very funny joke.” She added, “I think he should be fired.
Ann Frank, the mother of another student, told the Fresno Bee, “If he said it, he needs to be fired.” Some black students told the newspaper they had felt targeted by DiFilippo when it came to being disciplined.

Source: Yahoo