Over a week has passed since the Spring Valley High School incident, which involved a resource officer dragging a student after she allegedly refused to obey his instructions. In the aftermath, the resident sheriff claimed the officer couldn’t be racist because he tended to date African American ladies. The officer has since been released from his duties, but the debate continues.
In this video from Fox’s Houston affiliate station, Black Lives Matter activist Quanell X and pundit Angela Box went in on each other over the officer’s actions. First, a bit of history between these two, for it is not their first rodeo together. In January, Box filed a defamation lawsuit against Quanell after he made public statements surrounding her resignation as an elementary school teacher. She had made some controversial YouTube statements (saying President Obama should die from Ebola), but the details surrounding her resignation remain murky.
These two are not friends, so of course they ended up facing off again on live television. In the above video, Box is seen asserting that the high school student was “no innocent little lamb.” She continued:
“It’s time we start addressing the root cause of all this. The disrespect of teachers, this Black Lives Matter movement, this perpetual chip on your shoulder against everybody that’s not like yourself. It’s got to stop. We’ve got to address the culture.”
Quanell X fired back but kept things remarkably calm and civilized:
“Ms. Box, nobody supports a disruptive student in a classroom because it stops other kids learning. But what I do have a problem with is, men should never handle a woman like the way that cop handled that little girl, to turn that desk over the way he did, grab her around her neck, then grabbed that child and threw her across the room, that is unbecoming of a man with decent character and conduct. Now for you to say that we need to deal with the culture of black kids in schools. Let’s deal with the culture of these crazy fanatic white boys who go in schools with guns and shoot and kill everybody.”
Then the shouting began on Box’s behalf. Quanell X asked her to “study that culture,” meaning that she should perhaps examine the Columbine, Sandy Hook and Lafayette shooters. Both parties began to shout and point fingers before Box yelled, “The perpetual chip on your shoulder, blame whitey!”
To which Quanell X responded, “Show some manners.”