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State superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr deleted her Twitter account Wednesday and apologized for a racially insensitive tweet in which she responded to a post asking people generally to recall the first time they were called the N-word.
In a response to a tweet from Madison Payton, a New York University doctoral student and co-host of a podcast titled Race Through Education, Kerr wrote: “I was 16 in high school and white — my lips were bigger than most and that was the reference given to me.”
Payton, who said his initial tweet was meant for people of color to share their traumatic experiences with the N-word as a way to heal, learned of Kerr’s tweet once he began to receive notifications on Twitter for a comment that had been deleted on Wednesday morning.

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