A Texas poet’s use of an arguably racist term isn’t protected speech because it caused disruption to his government employer’s relationship with the public, a federal court ruled.
The city of San Antonio had good cause to fire Nephtali De León in part because he continued to defend the use of the word after social media users called him on it, Judge Xavier Rodriguez of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said in the order docketed Thursday.
De León contention that the word isn’t racist, “is of no import in assessing whether the city reasonably acted …
