Friday, August 8, 2014

She called me ‘poor white trash’ and ‘white b****’,”

A white, male former Maryland #teacher has won a $350,000 jury award after claiming that schools officials retaliated against him because of his race.

Jon Everhart alleged in his lawsuit against the Prince George’s County school board that a black principal forced him out of his job because he is white.

“Justice was served,” Everhart said. “I do feel as though I have been vindicated.”

Everhart, 65, speaking by phone from Ohio after the verdict in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, said he faced years of racial harassment from the principal at Largo High School, who he said repeatedly told staffers and students that she planned to fire him.

“She called me ‘poor white trash’ and ‘white b****’,” Everhart said of the principal, Angelique Simpson-Marcus, who leads the 1,100-student school. “Her behavior was so outlandish.”



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