Florida’s education commissioner lambasted a Clay County School Board member Wednesday after he failed to show up at Florida Board of Education meeting to explain disparaging comments he made about Black people.
The board summoned Robert Alvero after he posted a Facebook Live video saying, “I have had 80% more negative experience with the African American community in this country than with white people.”
He continued: “With that being said, doesn’t mean I haven’t had good experiences with African American people. I have met a lot of great African American people, and I am still friends with them because they’re good, decent people. But that’s the 20% of the people I have met. They’re African Americans. The other 80%, they’re being nasty. They’re being rude. They’re being problematic. Always trying to fight. Always disrespecting. So why would I want to be around people like that?”…