Question: why can’t some Black people stand to be accountable for the contemptible, asinine things some Black people do? Let’s be real. We’ve all watched over the past week as the Urban League leadership and other prominent Black people in Seattle have been implicated in a fraud investigation that has dominated the news cycle ever since it …
It’s pretty bad. The Urban League’s problems run deeper than the questionable contracts it had with the Seattle School District. Most revealing about the State Auditor’s report: the Urban League is not doing well financially. When interviewed for the SAO report, interim Executive Director Tony Benjamin said (more than once) the League needed the school …
Seattle Public Schools needs a new Superintendent. In 2007 the Board hired Maria Goodloe-Johnson for the job after a very public, very humiliating circus known as school closures. There was also fiscal mismanagement to the tune of $35 million dollars. The school board unanimously chose Goodloe-Johnson to clean up the district and get finances in …
Kelly Williams-Bolar broke the law. She falsified documents to send her children- who are Black- to a school district they didn’t live in. From Boyce Watkin’s Blog: The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records …
Justin Aaberg, 15 years old. Billy Lucas, also 15. Seth Walsh and Asher Brown, both 13 years old. Tyler Clementi, an 18 year old freshman at Rutger’s University. These are just a few of the many kids across our country who have killed themselves because they were tormented, bullied, outted, or believed to be gay. …