--- title: Resignation Letter Rocks the Old State House description: A longtime museum employee resigned over racist remarks she says she overheard about slavery at a staff meeting. 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A Black woman who worked at the Old State House Museum since 2011 resigned this week, saying she overheard racist comments about slavery at a staff meeting. Her resignation letter — obtained through a Freedom of Information request — quotes remarks including tired-of-talking-about-slavery sentiments and a claim that Arkansas is a white state. She addressed it to the interim director and copied the head of Arkansas Heritage. The resignation lands amid deeper chaos at the museum: the former director was fired in April, no permanent replacement has been named, and the state isn't commenting. The Old State House isn't just any building — it's where Arkansas history lives, including the harder chapters. When the people telling that history say they can't stay, it forces a reckoning about who's in the room and what's being said. This is the story everyone at the Little Rock dinner party is discussing this week. 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