Commentary: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson And Plain Dealer Columnist Phillip Morris Fight It Out.. Read What President Obama Had To Say
Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Commentary By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network I hate to see two Black men at each others throats as has occurred this week with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and talented but conservative Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist Phillip Morris. Nonetheless, it stirs up dialogue and increases readership in a country where few people read on a regular basis and even fewer internalize the high points of what is written. It also reminds us that Cleveland's Black children are still at risk educationally where the federal and state governments, unlike Jackson, have thrown them to the waste side. The long overdue debate is over the state of affairs of Cleveland's predominantly Black public school children. Jackson has taken on Morris and others at the PD for criticizing a student scholarship program for kids under his watch to attend Cl