Security Guard Fired After Asking Student Not To Be Racist During A Confrontation Now Has His Job Back

Oct 28, 2019 by apost team

Marlon Anderson, a security guard at a high school in Wisconsin noticed a student becoming aggressive with the assistant vice principal at the high school he works at. This student had been screaming at and even shoving the principal.

When Marlon arrived, the student began calling him names, including the N-word. Marlon asked the student to stop several times. Finally, he point-blank told the student to stop calling him the N-word. The problem? He said the full word himself leading the school to fire him. 

This has naturally caused an uproar. The school claims that it has a zero-tolerance policy for racial slurs. By saying the actual word, Marlon broke that policy and thus should be fired.

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Marlon argues that banning the word without taking into context how it was used is wrong. He was trying to get the student to stop abusing him; he wasn't using the word for any other reason.

The community is outraged at what happened to Marlon. Students at Madison West High launched a protest. They marched around the school administration building, chanting "Bring back Marlon." The school promised to review its policies. Prompted by the uproar, they reversed their decision and gave Marlon his job back.

Marlon told Channel 3000, “I’m thankful. I’m blessed, and I’m so happy to be going back and doing what I do, I miss the kids. I’m looking forward to hitting the ground running.”

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