Georgia school superintended resigns after caught in racist rant

The resignation of Buford schools superintended Geye Hamby comes after recordings surfaced as part of a racial discrimination lawsuit. The recordings are of phone calls in which Hamby disparages black construction workers. City commissioner and school board chair Phillip Beard was identified as present in the room during Hamby's screed, and thus is now embroiled in the controversy himself, although he hasn't resigned yet.

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“His resignation is a step in the right direction,” said Atlanta lawyer Ed Buckley, who brought the race discrimination discrimination suit against Hamby and the school system, which ignited the chain of events. “I’m sure it will be good for the school district and the community.” Buckley represents Mary Ingram, an African-American woman who was fired last year as a paraprofessional after working for the school system for more than 18 years. In a court motion filed late Thursday, Buckley named Beard as being present while Hamby disparaged blacks workers. “On information and belief, school board chair and city commissioner Phillip Beard was present when the audio recordings were made and his voice, which does not object to the racial slurs, can be heard on the recordings,” the motion said. When asked Friday why he’s now saying Beard was the other person on the recording, Buckley said, “A number of people who know Mr. Beard have identified the other voice in the recording as his.” Buckley added, “If Mr. Beard was present during this racist rant and failed to take action to remove Mr. Hamby as superintendent or inform other school board members, or the city commission for that matter, then he was derelict in his duty. It also indicates to me the school board was at least on notice with respect to its superintendent saying those things.” The audio recordings, attached to the lawsuit, contain two conversations, each one just over a minute in duration. The person said to be Hamby repeatedly uses racial epithets when complaining about African-American temp workers at a construction site. At one point, the person said to be Hamby says, “(Expletive) that (n-word). I’ll kill these (expletive) – shoot that (expletive) if they’d let me.” Buckley has declined to disclose where he obtained the recordings or say when the conversations occurred. In the conversation, the person said to be Hamby appears to be talking on the phone to someone as a person next to him offers commentary. (The person recording this at the time has also not been identified.) During the phone call, the person said to be Hamby refers to a person named “Phillip.” “And then they had a damn attitude when Phillip spoke to them,” the person said to be Hamby says on the phone call. “They told them: Get off the job site. But check it out for me. … I know Phillip told two of the (n-word) to get off the damn job site.” The person identified as Beard then says, “I told em, I was going to send.” But he then gets cut off by the person said to be Hamby, who tells the person on the other end of the phone call, “Find out. I mean, (expletive) it, we, send a, I mean, (expletive), send send us a park-quality person. Don’t send us a deadbeat (n-word) from a temp service.”

I'm sure he's a totally non-racist white person though, because As We Know, totally non-racist white people just get mad at black people and refer to them as (n-word)s for completely non-racist reasons sometimes.

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