Michigan School board Member In Deep Shit After Tweeting Out ‘Whiteness is so evil’

Early in the morning on Dec. 18, 2022, Kesha Hamilton, a trustee of Jackson Public Schools, tweeted from her personal account: “Whiteness is so evil.. it manipulates then says, I won’t apologize for my dishonesty and trauma inducing practices and thinks you should applaud it for being honest about its ability to manipulate and be dishonest.”

She added the hashtags #deceitful and #perfidious.

In response to the tweet, a woman wrote that Hamilton’s tweet was “so disheartening” and asked if she was elected to represent the entire diverse student body in Jackson.

Hamilton responded: “What’s disheartening? Calling out whiteness? Or whiteness being evil?”

A former Jackson school trustee submitted a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asking her to remove Hamilton from the board.

Cheryl Simonetti’s term expired Dec. 31, 2022. Simonetti said in her letter to Whitmer, which she wrote before her term expired, that Hamilton “posted anti-white hate speech on social media” and that “her racist hate speech cannot be condoned.”

Simonetti says Whitmer’s office did not respond to her letter. There was no response to CapCon’s request for comment from Whitmer’s office.

Angela Mitchell, president of the Jackson school board, told CapCon: “I have been made aware of these comments by Board Trustee Hamilton. These views do not represent Jackson Public Schools or the Board of Education!”