Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Craig Witherspoon

The lines drawn over Superintendent Craig Witherspoon’s future are complex and and difficult to navigate. One detractor calls Withersppon an Uncle Tom for selling out to Over the Mountain white people, while Rev. Calvin Woods throws his support behind the school chief. Commenters on al.com react about as you’d expect, while the business community and state leaders support him whole-heartedly. Today the Birmingham News has an analysis of the class and racial tangles, even when the threads resist being neatly teased apart.