Despite a month of public outcry over disparaging comments Madison County Public School Board member Charlie Sheads made about Muslims and initiatives to improve equity for Black people, his fellow School Board members remained silent as Sheads doubled down during their final meeting of the year on Monday, Dec. 8.
“I can assure you there is one religion that chants ‘death to America’ and that’s the Muslim religion,” Sheads said, speaking during the meeting. “It’s not a color. It’s not racist. It’s religion, and they do not like us.”
The current outcry against Sheads began on Nov. 5, when he published a post to the “Madison Bulletin” (now “Madison Bulletin Untamed”) community page on Facebook. In it, Sheads disparaged Americans who voted for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Virginia Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi, both of whom are Muslim, and likened the politicians to the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks…