January 8, 2010

Cincinnati NAACP

The Cincinnati NAACP will attend the Cincinnati Board of Education meeting on Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm.  This is an action call to the Officers, Executive Committee, and Members to attend.  The CPS Board has extended $707 million of contracts to build schools.  The African American Community did not receive $14 million or even 2% of the total contracts to date.  The CPS Board has 50% more schools to build and the Cincinnati NAACP will demand that African American Contractors get their share.  The broad Cincinnati Community continues to engage in economic apartheid no matter the public project.  This exclusion is painful because the Cincinnati NAACP has supported 100% of all School Levy's for 95 years.  "The CPS Board will no longer take the African American vote for granted.  This is a broken promise at a time that African American unemployment in Cincinnati is 25%," Smitherman says. 

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It is time for action.  All NAACP members that are available please attend the Monday Board meeting!  How can any board spend $1 billion in public money for new schools and exclude the "Black" community in a city that is 47% African American?  How can any board spend $1 billion in public money for new schools and exclude the "Black" community in a city that 70% of the children that attend public schools are African American?  Please email back if you plan to attend the meeting on Monday.  "Black folks can no longer except that our men and women have no work while projects are being built in our back yards," Smitherman says.