The superintendent of Buford City Schools allegedly made racist remarks about black construction workers on a job site, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, which reportedly includes audio recordings of a Superintendent Geye Hamby, the superintendent is accused of calling African-American construction workers racial epithets, while mentioning that he'd like to kill some of them.
The rants include eight uses of the "N-word," though it's unclear if the recordings were doctored or altered in any way.
Lawyers representing Hamby told the newspaper that Hamby denies the allegation that he uses racist language when referring to black people.
The Buford City School Board is apparently aware of the matter, and looking into whether or not the recordings are authentic and obtained legally.
In Georgia, one party of a conversation must consent for it to be recorded. If the recording was made by someone who was not a part of the conversation, it would inadmissible in court, as it would be illegal surveillance.
The lawsuit doesn't specify when the recordings were made, where they came from, or whether or not the voice heard in them was aware he was being recorded at the time.
Hamby is being sued for racial discrimination in connection to the firing of a longtime paraprofessional, who apparently clashed with the superintendent over the inclusion of gold in the school's logos — gold being the color of the city's black high school before integrating.
