Teacher Used The Shooting Of Obama In Geometry Lesson

I tell anyone who will listen,Alabama is one of the most beautiful states in the country. The rolling hills with their tall oak trees is truly breath taking. I'm also quick to tell anyone who will listen Birmingham(my city) is about to become the new IT place to be in the south. In 2007,Birmingham was voted by Black Enterprise magazine as the 8th best city in the country for young black professionals to live. Many people who are....how can I say this.....(ok,I got it).Many people who are IGNORANT and NOT WELL TRAVELED think the state of Alabama is one big place with dirt roads where people stand on the side of the road picking cotton. They probably think the city of Birmingham still has KKK members walking down the streets in hooded robes. Come on people,those days are long gone. There are many coalitions consisting of blacks and whites trying to get the word out about this beautiful city and this beautiful state. But just as we begin to gain some traction,a certain segment of people reminds us what we're up against. Whether it's Gubernatorial candidate Tim James' commercials about "This is Alabama,we speak English,LEARN IT!" as he plays on the "fears" of the growing Hispanic population. Or the BIG(and I do mean BIG) Confederate flag that flies over interstate 65 near Montgomery on property owned by The Confederate Sons of America. There's always something we're up against when trying to convince people that we're not like the movie Sweet Home Alabama or Forest Gump. Now we can add yet another embarrassment to that list.
Last week GREGORY HARRISON, a math teacher at CORNER HIGH SCHOOL in Warrior,Al which is 15 miles north of Birmingham,was teaching his Geometry class when a student used the example of shooting the President. You would think any responsible teacher would have said,"That's inappropriate,use another example." But not Mr.Harrison,he continued right along with the student and even made the comment,"Ok,if you shoot off his ear,this would be the proper place of tangency". I think tangency has to do with a curve touching the line at an angle......or something like that.I haven't been in a geometry class in over 20 years.
But this is BIG news in Birmingham right now. I was hoping it would settle down after the secret service paid Mr.Harrison a visit and the board of education suspended him without pay. But of course,the "great people of the state of Alabama" aren't going to stand by and let that be the end of it. Some parents are making excuses for what he did,some don't see anything wrong with it at all and I heard on a local talk show today that some people are trying to get one of the gubernatorial candidates to come support him because "his freedom is under attack from liberals"....SMH!!!!
Malia Drummond,a tenth grader said,"What's the big deal? He was just talking about Obama.Everyone makes jokes about Obama. It's not like Mr.Harrison was seriously talking about assassinating him."
*And the parents of the year award goes to,Mr and Mrs. Drummond* UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!
Y'all better come get ya daughter b4 Shameka n'nem put dey hands on her.

Stay tuned, because this has yet to hit the national media. But when it does and they start interviewing every toothless radical right wing conservative they can find in this state,please know that there is more to the state of Alabama than that.........PLEASE!!!???