Exigent circumstances

Mayors ending the year with deficits will engage in dereliction of duty

At the end of the Civil War in 1865 the literacy rate for freed American Negroes was zero percent. By 1970 our literacy rate was 98.4 percent. Why? In segregated schools like I was educated in my four American Negro female and four American Negro male teachers maintained the academic standards that achieved the goal. An "A" was a score of 95 to 100. When the Russians on leading our 75 percent majority American Negro city's school board wanted to grade us on the "curve," my teachers met with our parents as a group. They told us and them that an "A" was a score of 95 to 100 and anything less would demean our race. I was an A student. Then we returned to Cleveland. I see y'all embraced the curve. Look at how you demean our race. I learned to read and write in "that" East Saint Louis, Illinois environment and I thank almighty God for my father's decision to raise his family there.

CLEVELAND, OH – By the end of 2020 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will have recklessly created a deficit in the city’s general fund and committed the criminal offense of dereliction of duty if he hasn’t already laid off city workers or been negotiating new labor agreements as a result of tax collection shortages.  The language of the “dereliction of duty” local ordinance is found in Section 615.12(d) and (e) as the subsections. Subsection (f) of Cleveland’s codified ordinances makes the offense a second degree misdemeanor.  The crime should be upgraded to a first degree misdemeanor. “(d)  No public official of…

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