Tacoma educator draws ire of conservative commentators after Facebook posts
An assistant principal at Lincoln High School is drawing attention from conservative commentators outside of Tacoma after he posted on Facebook following the death of Charlie Kirk.
Logic Amen, who has been an assistant principal at Lincoln since 2011 for grades 11 and 12, posted on Facebook three days after Charlie Kirk’s death that “America has a white male problem.” The post on his public account received over 100 comments and close to 200 reactions. Many of the comments on the post were supportive.
But the X account @libsoftiktok posted Amen’s picture and a screenshot of his original Facebook post which has since garnered tens of thousands of likes and reposts, with commenters calling the post “racist” and saying Amen should be fired.
The account has several million followers across a few social-media platforms and typically publishes posts criticizing individuals, schools and libraries for their support LGBTQ people and diversity, equity and inclusion. The account’s posts often have preceded bomb and death threats targeting the individuals and establishments that it criticizes.
Amen said in a Facebook post later that he has been doxxed, harassed and called slurs as a result of his posts. He called for people to be kind and to support his page to combat the hate he has received.
“My family and friends fear for my safety knowing what has happened to Black people, specifically Black men, who speak their mind,” he wrote on Facebook. “We get harassed. Beaten. Fired. Killed.”
Amen said in a statement to The News Tribune that he has “dedicated [his] existence on Earth to being a lifetime learner.”
“I have dedicated my life to creating safe places for people to be educated, be creative, express themselves artistically, and engage with each other for the purposes of community building,” Amen wrote. “I place a high premium on having healthy dialogue that promotes growth and healing.”
Tacoma Public Schools spokesperson Tanisha Jumper told The News Tribune that the district does not comment on ongoing personnel matters.
“We are aware of the reported concerns and are currently looking in to them,” Jumper wrote.
Amen’s posts also caught the attention of Brandi Kruse, a conservative political commentator based in western Washington who discussed Amen’s posts on her podcast, “unDivided with Brandi Kruse.” Kruse called his posts “racist,” saying that if Amen was white he would have been fired immediately.
“The reason I say this is the worst thing that we’ve seen from any educator is one, it’s blatant racism. And two, it basically is an admission that this Black man who is supposed to be really, caring for kids when they come to school, thinks that the white kids who come to his school and the white boys who come to his school are inherently problematic.”
This is not the first time Amen has come under fire.
In 2018 parents at Lincoln criticized Amen, who moonlights as a rapper, for lyrics in a song he wrote during his off hours involving the persona of a troubled student threatening a shooting at a high school. The attention that Amen’s posts have received recently revived concerns that parents had in 2018.
Amen, who in the 2023-2024 academic year earned $197,811 according to the state, said in 2018 that it’s clear to students who might stumble onto his music that he’s not condoning what he’s rapping about.
“I don’t understand how someone could say I condone it based on me depicting a story of a person who had a troubled back story — stuff going on in their family — and committing acts of violence,” Amen told The News Tribune in 2018.
The district at the time said Amen was not violating any of the district’s policies and said that district officials didn’t have any concerns about his abilities as assistant principal.
Parents at Tacoma Public Schools turned out to criticize Amen at a school board meeting on Sept. 25, asking the district to investigate Amen’s conduct and social media activity.
“This is not a one-off. This is a pattern of his rhetoric,” a parent said at the meeting.
This story was originally published October 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
