Racial discrimination at Greenville Tech, NAACP says

[Thom Little]

The local NAACP chapter says it received a number of racial discrimination complaints at Greenville Technical College following the resignation of a former administrator who referred to children of hurricane evacuees as "yard apes."

The Greenville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a report Wednesday claiming "racial polarization and discrimination" at the college but didn't release any specific allegations.

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NAACP branch president Paul Guy said he has discussed specific discrimination cases with school president Tom Barton. The complaints came after former associate vice president Renee Holcombe left in September. Holcombe, who has sued the college to get her job back, said the remark was meant to be a humorous reference to rowdy children without any racial distinction.

"After conducting several interviews and weeks of analyzing data supplied by the college, it is the opinion of the NAACP that there are several root causes of the racial polarization and discrimination found on campus," the report said. "These root causes are lack of minority hiring, lack of minority promotions, and lack of minority visibility in upper management."



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