Louisiana school officials are looking into an incident involving a white substitute teacher and an African-American student arguing over the use of the n-word after a video of the exchange went viral online. The footage, which was shared on Twitter Thursday, features the teacher “Coach Ryan” attempting to tell the student that using the n-word isn’t racist.
“That’s racist as shit,” the student can be heard responding. “Why can you not understand that it’s racist for a white man to say ‘n****r’ to a black man? It’s fucking racist.”
The student then rhetorically asks his white classmates if they would ever use the word, adding that “fuck no” they wouldn’t. Coach Ryan, however, insisted that the word has taken on a new, non-offensive meaning over time and that it’s overuse caused it to lose its original meaning.