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Jerry Bostic, a white Gastonia, North Carolina, principal at Brookside Elementary School, resigned after he suspended a black boy for calling a white teacher "cute".
A substitute teacher, with equally questionable judgement, overhead 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett's conversation with a friend, and notified Bostic.
Bostic suspended the boy for several days, according to various news reports.
The school investigated the incident and issued Bostic an ultimatum: quit or be demoted to assistant principal.
Bostic chose the former.
According to a FOX News article, Bostic blamed his current unemployment status on a news reporter.
"I didn't show a history of making problems like that. I've had the best of evaluations my entire career and because of some syndicated columnist in New York or California, I don't have a job," said the former school principal of 44 years.
Chiquita Lockett, the 9-year-old boys mother, felt her son's punishment was too harsh.
One source said the student's mother may be considering legal action.
The moment I knew the facts in this story, I immediately thought of Emmett Till.
In 1955, Till was savagely murdered in Mississippi after he allegedly flirted with a white woman.
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