Several Black Howard County organizations have put their support behind calls to fire the county auditor, saying he attempted to smear the President and CEO of the Howard County Library System in a recent report because she is Black.
“I am deeply troubled … This is a Jim Crow-era tactic being used to discredit powerful Black women in Howard County.” the Rev. Larry Walker, deputy pastor at Celebration Church in Columbia said at a news conference on Thursday. “This is an attack on African-American women and Howard County is not going to stand for it. This is 2023. This is not 1903. This is not 1873.”
The organizations also demanded that the auditor’s report be removed from the county’s website and that the auditor issue a public apology to Howard County Library System CEO and President Tonya Aikens.
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