'I just did not do that:' ECU professor resigns after controversial Facebook post about Juneteenth

by: Courtney Cortright Posted: Jul 2, 2021 / 07:22 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 2, 2021 / 11:12 PM EDT GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — An associate professor from East Carolina University said he has resigned after a controversial Facebook post regarding Juneteenth. Last week, a post that said “Hey there. How about **** Juneteenth!!!” circulated on Facebook and social media. The post was on Monte Miller’s Facebook page on June 25. On Thursday, he resigned his position as an associate professor at the ECU School of Social Work. He had been with the university since 2005. Fourth of July fireworks and other celebrations in Eastern North Carolina CLICK HERE to sign up for our WNCT email newsletters Miller also told 9OYS he never made the post and believed in light of what had happened concerning the social media outrage over it that he should retire. “This whole thing has just been a personal assault,” Miller said in a phone interview Friday. “I don’t know how else to describe it. I have worked with minorities from Penobscot Indians in Maine to (The Church of Jesus Christ of) Latter-day Saints in Wyoming to groups of Black people here that have been discriminated…
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