Cloud Of Shame Cast Upon Dekalb County GA: Former School's Chief Indicted In Corruption Scandal Over Construction Contracts

AJC: Former DeKalb schools chief, three others indicted

Former DeKalb County schools superintendent Crawford Lewis

Shame comes, once again, to Dekalb County Georgia.  This time it is the school administration that is caught up in a criminal scandal.

In as much as Dekalb County is often sold as "the second wealthiest Black majority county in the nation" it is becoming more clear that the take over by "favorable people" (Blacks and Democrats) is merely a case of new faces in high places, doing the very same underhanded actions that riled up the Black community and triggered the previous take over.

Unfortunately - there will not be a second "take over" triggered by this and several other scandals.  The "rank and file" within the community is content with the "hue" of the people who are depicted in the portraits which hang on the walls of government.

Former DeKalb chief operating officer Patricia Reid.

I take little pleasure in writing about the misfortunes that take place in Dekalb, Fulton or Clayton County. My goal is only to get the "Black Rank and File" voters to realize that as they march forward seeking to put "our people in power so that our permanent interests will be addressed", far too often there exists a large gap between the motivations of the voters and the motivations of those who get inserted into power. They often USE race to get into power but benefit personally from the endeavor. The consequence of this process is that the voting district in question gets painted as an area where the blind loyalties of Black people allow corruption and incompetence in the way of delivering quality services to get masked by supposed "racial pride".
Cointa Moody, secretary for Patricia Reid.
Which Black Establishment forces are missing in this upheaval before us?

ANSWER:

1. The Black Press
2. The Black Activist Community

I will need to make a special trip over to Dekalb County to search out the "Dekalb Crossroads" newspaper. In as much as one can travel to Republican dominated "East Cobb County" and find a GOP loyalist newspaper - "Dekalb Crossroads News" is like a campaign newsletter for the fused "Black Political Establishment" and Democratic Party.

I doubt that we would find a history of muckraking journalism that doggedly inspected the actions of these operatives in the Dekalb County school administration. Instead they are more inclined to operate as a P.R. tool for the superintendent - making sure that a certain quota of pictures of his face appear in their pages to fortify in the minds of their readers "who runs things now".

Tony Pope, the ex-husband of former chief operating officer Patricia Reid

Regarding the Black Activist Community in Dekalb - in as much as I have not heard a peep out of them regarding the two recent "Taser Involved Deaths" of two Black people in Dekalb over the past 4 weeks - I am not sure that we should expect to hear any indictments out of their mouths regarding the 4 individuals who crafted this inside horse trading.

We are more likely to hear them call for a "fair trial" and that we should "not rush to judgment".

Keep in mind that the prosecution of these individuals is being conducted by yet another Democrat and Black who was put into power by the same machinery who erected the machine that now runs the schools - District Attorney Gwen Keys-Fleming

Time For A "True Up", Black America

In a continuation of my theme that "the infinite universe has doubled back upon itself and you are now chasing your own tail"................it is time for a major recalibration within Black America regarding our "raciopolitical" loyalties.    The more we are lead to believe that a person who qualifies because of his skin color and ideological compatibility has our community's best interests in mind - the more we will continue to be used.

The foxes will continue to guard the hen house at our expense.

Today in Black American the main disqualification for a Black person is his IDEOLOGY.   Clarence Thomas will continue to be assaulted politically more than a countless number of Kwame Kilpatricks, William Jeffesons, Shelia Dixons and Monica Conyers combined.   After all they "worked to advance" the popularly held "Black Best Interests" while Thomas and other Black Conservatives are believed to have assailed them.

With this enforcement action in mind - the collective sludge is focused upon those who dare "think the wrong way".  This says nothing about the presence of an appropriate MANAGEMENT infrastructure to keep those who are politically favorable in check.

In fact we are more likely to hear the forces of "The Concerned Black Clergy" and the "NAACP" ask for "fairness in judgment" of their Permanent Friends.  Absent is the "feigned outrage" that is present against their enemies.  Instead they ask that we all respect the tenants of American jurisprudence "INNOCENT until proven GUILTY" .

Dekalb County is a unique place.  Gone are most of the contentious "Black/White" or "Republican/Democrat" battles.  "We Run Things Now".   The main fault of this and other environs is that having "struggled" for so long against the popular adversary - the Black Political Establishment has failed to erect an infrastructure that remains loyal to our PERMANENT INTERESTS, beyond merely placing "Permanent Friends" into power.

To publicly confront a "Permanent Friend", challenging him on his failures and thus sounding just like the news media and external Republicans is often times more of an offense than what the rogue insider is accused of doing.

After all "THEY" used to do the same corrupt things when "THEY" were in power.
Why is it such a big deal now?