Sudents arrive Carter Traditional Elementary School in Louisville on Jan. 24, 2022 (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
About a dozen Kentucky Republicans are calling on Jefferson County Public Schools to fire its chief equity officer for a social media post on his personal account.
However, some say the move is another in a line of discriminatory attacks from state lawmakers on Kentucky’s largest public school system.
On Wednesday, 14 white Republican lawmakers or incoming lawmakers signed onto a statement calling on the resignation or ouster of Chief Equity Officer John Marshall for posts he made on X about recent conversations with Black students and young professionals.
“A few young(er) Black professionals & students called me this morning & asked, ’What’s a strategy moving forward?’” Marshall wrote Monday. “My response, ‘REGARDLESS of the rooms, meetings, classes, etc., you’re in, know THE MAJORITY of whites could care less about you & have no issues harming you or yours.’”