What to do if you happen to use the n-word during a board meeting? Resign, I guess. (R.I. School Official Resigns After Slur AP). Meanwhile, educators in New Mexico found out they won’t get in trouble from the feds for a high school racism project that labeled water fountains “Whites Only” and, quaintly, “People Of Color”. See: No sanctions for mock-segregation project MSNBC.