Despite the fact that African Americans represent about 70% of approximately 23,100 residents, we are totally under-represented in Maple Heights government leadership positions, high salaried positions, etc. [See Wikipedia, Demographics - last paragraph - 2010 stats and not 2000 stats]
Open for discussion:
Do you feel that you are respected by your Maple Heights government, and/or do you feel that as an African American resident, your ideas, rights, interests, concerns are ignored or dismissed?
Would you like to have a recreation center?
Open for discussion:
Do you feel that you are respected by your Maple Heights government, and/or do you feel that as an African American resident, your ideas, rights, interests, concerns are ignored or dismissed?
Do you feel you are taken seriously by this administration?
Do you feel safe in Maple Heights? We've recently noticed a rise in burglaries in Maple Heights (most of us know of someone in Maple Hts who has been burglarized w/in the past 6 months).
Do you feel safe in Maple Heights? We've recently noticed a rise in burglaries in Maple Heights (most of us know of someone in Maple Hts who has been burglarized w/in the past 6 months).
If there is anything that is bothering you about Maple Heights ... jobs, this administration, the local police, your city schools, treatment of African Americans (esp. the young and elderly).
Do you have any complaints? Please let us know.
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If you haven't already signed our voting rights petition, please do so now:
Stop This City Council From Trampling on Our Voting Rights
or Martin Luther King Would Be Outraged and You Should Be Too!
or you can sign one of our paper petitions by emailing us.
We'll also be doing a poll in the near future, to find out what your concerns and priorities are.
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5 comments:
We really need a civilian review board. In order to fund it, the mayor should be stripped of his title as safety director, and have his salary reduced by $10,000
Maple Heights resident are stupid and need to be educated. They dont vote and they let the white people run all over them. Just because the mayor take a picture with a black kid or keep talking about the football player that doesnt mean he's not a racist. Maple Heights residents wake the hell up. He's just using you. The city is broke and the mayor hasnt taken a pay cut but he laid off city worker.
Was there a committee that chose the groups for the "Music in the Park" series, or did Linda chose the groups on her own?
If there was no committee, there should have been, and those on the committee should have reflected the racial demographic percentages in Maple Heights.
Charles Crews is my appointed council person, yet I did not get any notification of a Block Watch Meeting. I hope this is an oversight, because he can not pick and choose who he does and does not represent in district 5.
I think we the African-American people of Maple Heights need to come together, even the whites and other races of people here in Maple because they are being targeted too.
So that we all can come together and overturn the injustice that we are all facing here in Maple Heights.
Some people want to blame the increase in crime (if any? it's just more wrongful arrests) in Maple on the black people here, but that is what they want you to think don't believe it.
The schools here especially the high school needs more guidance for the teachers, principles, and especially the children. Teenagers are very impressionability, hormone driven, and need to be guided into choosing the right path to go down to be great adults. That is not happening at the High school at all, maybe it is at some of the elementary schools.
My last concern is the lack of "loving thy neighbor, fellow man, woman, and child" as the Bible says so. Some people here don't understand, just mad they can't or don't or just choose not to let people have fun and enjoy themselves and take things to way too serious.
Like calling the police because someone walked on their grass while walking down the street or some kids stepped on their grass while playing. Hello It's grass people!Ya, I know that sound silly, but this has happened here before to many times to people I know or those I don't even know personally.
Where is the ethics, justice, peace, love, protection, and moral beliefs at in this city and in the world.
All those aspects of a good life needs to be brought back and come back to us as people and as human-beings. We're becoming more and more animal like as time goes by. In god's name, Amen!!
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