Comfortable with uncomfortable conversations: Webinar aims to confront racism in Chatham County

Some of the participants included school leaders. The mock "auction" was still top of many people attending the webinar that the school system arranged with CORE, which stands for Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity.

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Attendees said the webinar served as a space for people to learn together and heal together.

"As a school system, we are not experts at systemic racism or racial trauma," said Tracy Folwer, the executive director of student services for CCS.

School leaders worked with CORE to bring in experts on how to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations. One of the experts included Ronda Taylor Bullock, who runs a nonprofit that works with children to combat racism at an early age.

"You don't have to have the answers. Your children already have thoughts and beliefs, and you want to get out of them what they already know so you can build upon that knowledge and grow with them," said Taylor.

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"I was walking back and I turned around and heard, 'This [expletive] this. This [expletive] that. This [explicative] doesn't matter — she's black. That's don't matter," recalled Brooks.

Recent investigation found no CCS employees involved in the mock "auction.

School leaders said upcoming trainings for implicit bias are in the works for next month.