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School board member deletes Facebook account after outburst; wants to ‘stop the negativity’
by Tony Mecia
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, school board member Shamaiye Haynes apologized for her recent Facebook behavior, hours after calling an online critic a “perv” and wondering whether parents knew he “hate[s] Blacks.”
In a post Tuesday afternoon, Haynes wrote:
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