BUFORD, Ga. - A Georgia school superintendent has resigned after two recordings, allegedly of him, surfaced during a lawsuit that revealed a racist and profanity-laden rant.
Geye Hamby resigned from the position of Buford City Schools superintendent on Friday after a federal racial discrimination lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court alleging he openly referred to blacks using the 'n-word.'
When the suit's defendant, Mary Ingram, a paraprofessional with the district, questioned this issue and other alleged discriminatory practices by the district, she says she was terminated without cause.
In two separate recordings supplied with the lawsuit, one person, reported to be Hamby, can be heard in profanity-laced telephone conversations referring to "deadbeat n*****s" in relation to what sounds like a construction or repair job.
In the conversation, Hamby says he is frustrated with the black workers at the job site and says he will shoot or kill them.
"F*** that n******! I will kill these g**damned -- shoot that motherf***** if they let me," he said in the recording. "All right. Well, check out what's going on with all the n******* down here."
Ingram's attorney, Ed Buckley told 11Alive's Joe Henke on Wednesday that they had the recordings analyzed and compared to known recordings of Hamby. Buckley indicated that they were comfortable that the recordings were authentic, that they had not been altered and that the person speaking was, indeed, Hamby.
At a news conference on Wednesday, 11Alive's Joe Henke asked Ingram if she thought Hamby had used that sort of language previously, given that the person who recorded Hamby took the time to do so.
"Oh, I'm sure -- and a lot of people have talked about when he talked to them, he talked to them so disrespectful," she said. "And not just blacks; blacks, whites; just -- people. With that authority; that voice that he would use."
