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VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Black leaders upset over Valdosta schools not airing a live speech by President Barack Obama are calling for the white school district superintendent to resign.
During a Monday night school board forum, NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference members lined up to ask Valdosta City Schools Superintendent Bill Cason to step down, saying his decision to not show the Sept. 8 speech to school children live was racially motivated. The speech was shown in most Valdosta schools in the weeks after it aired.
The Rev. Floyd Rose, president of the Valdosta-Lowndes County chapter of the SCLC, said he is unhappy that the majority of the school's administration is white when 80 percent of the students are black.
Cason did not immediately return a call for comment from The Associated Press.
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