Tuesday, April 7, 2009

School board member says she's sorry

By Justin Schmidt

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School board member says she's sorry

Topeka School board member Betty Horton says she's sorry for racist remarks.

Topeka School board member Betty Horton says she's sorry.

At press conference Horton called for Monday evening, she denied saying fellow board member Patrick Woods is "lower than white."

She apologized for anything she may have said to offend people.

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Horton says she knows she isn't perfect, and says she has been impatient at board meetings.

"I have to understand that not everybody thinks the way I think. And not everybody wants to move at the pace I want to move at. I want it done now, I want it done for everybody," said Horton.

Horton also says she has felt shut off from the rest of the board for her entire term.

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momonthejob1 (anonymous) says...

I cannot believe that someone would sink so low and make a comment such as this. She denies that she made it because she actually said what she had been thinking all along, and it came out before she could catch it. Ms. Horton says she feels "left out." There is usually a reason. Someone that is so difficult, and hard to deal with- why would they want to work with her? Maybe she needs a break to go get some counseling, and take some classes on how to be a professional... Seems she needs to get herself together emotionally and professionally.

April 7, 2009 at 1 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

ckcsr61 (anonymous) says...

What : where is my comment?

April 7, 2009 at 10:23 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

ckcsr61 (anonymous) says...

I said if a White person would of said this about another White person nothing would have been said. But since it involve a black person then all kinds of hell broke lose

April 7, 2009 at 10:28 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

dinab8 (anonymous) says...

I know Dr. Horton personally and I am white. I have never and would never hear anything coming from her.

April 9, 2009 at 1:02 a.m. ( | suggest removal )