The lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges that trustee Tammy Nakamura defamed former principal James Whitfield by calling educators like him “poison” and making...
The Grapevine-Colleyville ISD sign is pictured before Mustang Panther Stadium in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. A Black educator — who left his job in the Grapevine-Colleyville school district amid a “critical race theory” backlash — is suing the district and one of its school board members.
The lawsuit alleges that Nakamura — a conservative trustee — made public comments in June in which she referred to Whitfield as a “total activist” and said a letter in which he denounced discrimination was “the straw that broke the camel’s back … that got him fired.”Nakamura did not immediately return a request for comment.
In 2021, a former trustee candidate publicly accused Whitfield of wanting to introduce critical race theory into the district curriculum. Whitfield denied the man’s claims, but comments still ignited months of controversy. “Her disparaging comments about Dr. Whitfield clearly breached … the Settlement Agreement,” the lawsuit reads. “Dr. Whitfield’s reputation and his continued search for new employment have both been damaged by Trustee’s Nakamura defamatory comments.”
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