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(3/16/10): Cincinnati NAACP and Baptist Ministers Stand Together Against CPS Economic Apartheid |
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The Cincinnati NAACP and Baptist Ministers Conference will be located at North Avondale Montessori School tomorrow morning (Wednesday, 3/17/10). It is unacceptable for Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) to build public schools in African American neighborhoods with no African American contractors. "...If African Americans can not work no body works," Smitherman says.
March 16, 2010 . Cincinnati NAACP Media Release . . The Cincinnati NAACP and Baptist Ministers Conference stand together against economic apartheid on Cincinnati Public School (CPS) construction job sites. Both organizations are frustrated that the Cincinnati Public School Board continues to spend tax payer money while excluding African American contractors. CPS has had plenty of time to provide a strategic plan on how to include African American contractors on job sites that are under construction. It is unacceptable for CPS to build public schools in African American neighborhoods with no African American contractors. "Our organizations are forced to make them care. CPS can no longer have policies in place that exclude African American people. This is institutional racism," Christopher Smitherman President of the Cincinnati NAACP says. . The Cincinnati NAACP and Baptist Ministers Conference will be located at North Avondale Montessori School tomorrow morning. It is unacceptable to continue to have the majority of workers build our Cincinnati Public Schools from Kentucky and Indiana. "Our organizations have done all we can do to explain the fraud and corruption that Cincinnati Public Schools have been engaging in for five years by inflating minority inclusion numbers intentionally. It looks like business as usual. If African Americans can not work no body works," Smitherman says. . |
