Looking back at all of the comments made on the above article it seems that most of you have forgotton "your" history or maybe you never knew it. It is true you stole this land and its resources from the Natives and it is true that you enslaved the Africans and worked them for "free" for more than 246 years.
It is also true that you and your ancestors place laws on the books that prevented Africans from learning to read on penalty of beatings or death.
Your ancestors also placed laws on the books that prevented Africans from living in decent housing, earning living wages, going to 98% of the Colleges and Universities and many of the other higher education trades well into the 1900s.
Things did not really start to change until the 1954 Supreme Court Decision, The 1964 Civil Rights Bill and The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed by the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60s.
And still things are not equal. Take the fact that the great State of Ohio did not ratify the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution until the year 2003. What was that about? Equality?
Progress has been made, but not because of people like you. But by people of all races who believe in the truth in the lie that Thomas Jefferson told when he said "We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . "
When African people assert that they need to do for self, you seem to have a problem. When they beg you to do more for them, you seem to have a problem. Make up your mind, which do you perfer?
I agree with the School Board President's assessment that things have to improve. However, I disagree as to where the point of change must start from. The President of the Board of Education established a hostile environment on the Board from the day he was installed into office.
He then, without prior knowledge or experience, rated the Superintendent's work unsatisfactory (although she had advanced the District from Emergency to Watch). He then proceeded to re-announce time and time again to all that would listen, that he was unhappy with the Superintendent's performance.
This in spite of the fact that it was the current Superintendent that lead the charge to bring the District out of Academic Emergency into Academic Watch, increased the graduation rate from 53% to 72%, and increased the number of schools in Continuous Improvement, Effective and Excellent beyond all of the Superintendents that served in the previous 10 years.
I would submit that the downgrading of the District, to Academic Emergency, has a lot more to do with the micromanagement and undermining activities of unqualified Board members, acting as pseudo-superintendents, as opposed to the failure of the Superintendent to continue the advancements she had already made in her previous 4 years.
We need to move beyond sitting Board members, who are frustrated pseudo-superintendents, to Board members who know how to create Win Win polices that can be turned into Strategies of Solutions . . . not just blaming someone who has already accomplished more in the past four years than they will in the next fours.
Black group warns Youngstown BOE not to interfere
Looking back at all of the comments made on the above article it seems that most of you have forgotton "your" history or maybe you never knew it. It is true you stole this land and its resources from the Natives and it is true that you enslaved the Africans and worked them for "free" for more than 246 years.
It is also true that you and your ancestors place laws on the books that prevented Africans from learning to read on penalty of beatings or death.
Your ancestors also placed laws on the books that prevented Africans from living in decent housing, earning living wages, going to 98% of the Colleges and Universities and many of the other higher education trades well into the 1900s.
Things did not really start to change until the 1954 Supreme Court Decision, The 1964 Civil Rights Bill and The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed by the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60s.
And still things are not equal. Take the fact that the great State of Ohio did not ratify the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution until the year 2003. What was that about? Equality?
Progress has been made, but not because of people like you. But by people of all races who believe in the truth in the lie that Thomas Jefferson told when he said "We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . "
When African people assert that they need to do for self, you seem to have a problem. When they beg you to do more for them, you seem to have a problem. Make up your mind, which do you perfer?
May 7, 2011 at 6:58 p.m. permalink suggest removal
killa_beez14
KILLA_beez14 is on point. Try walking in his shoes for a day or two and then make a comment about what you found.
May 7, 2011 at 5:44 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Review of Webb calls for results
I agree with the School Board President's assessment that things have to improve. However, I disagree as to where the point of change must start from. The President of the Board of Education established a hostile environment on the Board from the day he was installed into office.
He then, without prior knowledge or experience, rated the Superintendent's work unsatisfactory (although she had advanced the District from Emergency to Watch). He then proceeded to re-announce time and time again to all that would listen, that he was unhappy with the Superintendent's performance.
This in spite of the fact that it was the current Superintendent that lead the charge to bring the District out of Academic Emergency into Academic Watch, increased the graduation rate from 53% to 72%, and increased the number of schools in Continuous Improvement, Effective and Excellent beyond all of the Superintendents that served in the previous 10 years.
I would submit that the downgrading of the District, to Academic Emergency, has a lot more to do with the micromanagement and undermining activities of unqualified Board members, acting as pseudo-superintendents, as opposed to the failure of the Superintendent to continue the advancements she had already made in her previous 4 years.
We need to move beyond sitting Board members, who are frustrated pseudo-superintendents, to Board members who know how to create Win Win polices that can be turned into Strategies of Solutions . . . not just blaming someone who has already accomplished more in the past four years than they will in the next fours.
December 3, 2009 at 2:22 p.m. permalink suggest removal