TN School Board Member Steps Down, Apologizes for 'Get a Rope' Comment
Allen Currie apologized and stepped down after the comment drew calls for his removal and an ethics complaint from the Haywood County NAACP.
- On Tuesday, Haywood County School Board chair Allen Currie resigned after posting "Get a rope" on social media alongside news of an 18-year-old's arrest in a mass shooting that killed one teenager.
- Dequarius Dushun Lax was charged in a May 8 mass shooting at Webb F. Banks Passive Park in Brownsville that killed 17-year-old Saturah Hayes and injured several others gathered for pre-prom pictures.
- Fitzgerald Mann, president of the Haywood County NAACP, stated "Get a rope has been used as part of racial terrorism," and the branch filed an ethics complaint with the Tennessee School Board Association.
- Currie apologized for his "poor judgement" in his resignation letter, stating he served Haywood County Schools for 14 years and did not intend the post to be hurtful or racist.
- Mann said Currie's resignation allows the community to "start the healing process," though he emphasized the post itself was racist regardless of Currie's personal intent.
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Tennessee School Board Chair Resigns Over 'Get A Rope' Remark Aimed At Black Suspect
Source: Nicholas Klein / Getty Racism is so deeply baked into white American culture that some white people forget that everywhere isn’t a safe space for their racially tinged humor and exclamations. To put it plainly, there is no safe racism. The now-former chairman of the Haywood County School Board, in Haywood, Tennessee, just found this out the hard way after making a remark about hanging a Black teen that he appeared to believe would be acc…
TN school board member steps down, apologizes for 'get a rope' comment
HAYWOOD COUNTY, Tenn. — The chairman of the Haywood County School Board announced his resignation Tuesday and apologized for a social media post that the NAACP condemned as racist. "I am stepping down due to poor judgment," Allen Currie announced in a statement Tuesday. "This has caused great pain for my school board, my community, [...]
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Source: Nicholas Klein / Getty Racism is so deeply baked into white American culture that some white people forget that everywhere isn’t a safe space for their racially tinged humor and exclamations. To put it plainly, there is no safe racism. The now-former chairman of the Haywood County School Board, in Haywood, Tennessee, just found this out the hard way after making a remark about hanging a Black teen that he appeared to believe would be acc…
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Tennessee School Board Chair Resigns Over ‘Get A Rope’ Remark Aimed At Black Suspect
Source: Nicholas Klein / Getty Racism is so deeply baked into white American culture that some white people forget that everywhere isn’t a safe space for their racially tinged humor and exclamations. To put it plainly, there is no safe racism. The now-former chairman of the Haywood County School Board, in Haywood, Tennessee, just found this out the hard way after making a remark about hanging a Black teen that he appeared to believe would be acc…
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