All the info is here. A copy of the resignation letter can be found here.
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I didn't get the last part of the statement:
This week's events focus me ever more intensely on the moral values passed on to me by my father, whose Watson surname marks his long ago Scots-Irish Appalachian heritage; and by my mother, whose father, Lauchlin Mitchell, came from Glasgow and whose mother, Lizzie Gleason, had parents from Tipperary. To my great advantage, their lives were guided by a faith in reason; an honest application of its messages; and for social justice, especially the need for those on top to help care for the less fortunate. As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
Does he mean that his parents taught him that individuals of African descent are inferior, or that his parents taught him to have "faith in reason" and that his opinions are based on this mindset?