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What Cleveland Metropolitan needs.

Maybe this is all the CMSD needs…(thanks Carmen)

Why aren’t there movies about black and latino teachers inspiring their youth other than Stand and Deliver and Lean on Me. I know Jaime Escalante and Joe Clark aren’t the only educational role models for Latino and Black students. There are teachers, black, white, asian, latino, male [...]

Straight Outta Touch

As any of my five readers know (Tim, next time I see you,I owe you a Red Stripe on me. Hooray beer!), I have been critical of Mansfield Frazier’s writing (see my post from April of this year called “Imus and Gangsta Rap”) on CoolCleveland in his Straight Outta Mansfield column. While I appreciate [...]

burying "nigger"

The NAACP decided to engage in their first relevant act of the new millenium (truly, what have they done?) and it’s…burying the word “nigger”? Come on! It’s nice to see that black America has all of its’ problems solved to the point where this is the primary concern. Our schools are educating kids [...]

 

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