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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

NAACP Calls for Segregationist Board Chair of Wake County to Step Down Schools Matter

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NAACP Calls for Segregationist Board Chair of Wake County to Step Down

From WRAL:
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined the state chapter on Tuesday in calling for the resignation of Wake County School Board Chairman Ron Margiotta after comments he made during a heated public hearing on March 2.
Margiotta could be heard saying, “Here come the animals out of their cages," during the meeting on the school system’s long-standing policy of assigning students to ensure schools had no more than 40 percent of students receiving free or reduced-price lunches.. . .
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