The Cleveland Heights kid curfew is intended to creat a private mall out of the public space.   

This is a very big issue.

Tower City did it with kids years ago.

The public space is being privatized.   Street by street.  Community by Community.  Store by store.

Profit has precedence over all.  Kids aren't the spenders.   Keep em home.  

Ms. Coleman recognizes an ominous trend.  Maybe not racist.  Maybe worse than racist.

Please read Ms. Coleman's report and consider where this could go....

And I agree with Ms. Coleman, Mr. Forbes seems to be an advocate for the corporate side, not the community side you would expect.

For example, George Forbes recently said: the Lake Shore Plant First Energy coal fired generation plant  should stay open because so many jobs are linked to it. He favors working with FirstEnergy to reduce pollution instead of attacking the company publicly.

So they seem to end up in Coventry... I mean; don't they have libraries, rec centers, and many parks to play at?

There's a park right there in Coventry....Euclid Heights Blvd....are they allowed to be there after 6pm? or is that a violation of this new law? 

Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"

The issue is not where "they" go but whether they have a constitutional right like their non-Black counterparts to go freely and without the adoption of racist public policy that  gives a licence to police to discriminate  against and to harass innocent Black teens of Cleveland Hts. I'm sure you go to the library, but does that mean you should be restricted from Walgreens based upon the color of your skin. If a particular young Black kid is acting up then deal with him or her, but it is racist to bar  Black children from a busineess district because the predominantly White business owners do not want them there---I hope their parents sue as a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as to a racist city ordinance amendment that illegally restricts children to target Black ones. Some people often say that it is not race at issue because though he or she may be intelligent, that person may have difficulty understanding the phenomenon of institutional racism as men sometimes have difficulty understanding the phenomenon of institutional sexism, given that men cannot possibly know what it feels like to be a woman. Can they now?  --Kathy Wray Coleman

Kathy--it is good to provide this dialogue. 

I work with kids and, believe me,  the powers afforded to them to directly communicate with each other are heady and intoxicating.  There has always been generational power struggles.  And, it does not matter what nationality or language or economic background these kids are born into--there will be a struggle.  How kids transition to adulthood in America is a nationwide problem.  We need this discussion.  I don't have the energy for it today, but I appreciate your involvement and willingness to openly communicate your concerns here.

Thanks but I have to move you to understand that race is also at play and the restriction to deny Black children their constitutional right to patronize businesses unlike their White counterparts is a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution--Help me here now. Are you saying that racism no longer exists in America and anytime Black children are targeted race has to not be at issue from the standpoint of intellectual White people, some of whom do not quite understand racism, and might I say this without offending those not sophistocated enough to participate in this kind of complex dialogue?--Kathy Wray Coleman

Its okay to just see yourself as simply a human being when you are not of a minority race whose ancestors were brought to this country in chains. To ignore that racism exists means to some degree to naively perpetuate it. What do you think?--Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman.---- I like actor Morgan Freeman but he is not a poster child for equal opportunity and equal justice. If he feels so inferior as a Black man that he has to use the term ethicity to avoid using the word Black, and to have a vehicle to help him refrain from  admitting that he is a Black man by all accounts, I feel sorry for him. What do you think?

To effectively change racist public policy, you must first admit they it exists. It is good sometimes to ignore bad memories and people in general have them. But in order to eradicate racism people have to first admit that it exist. For example, if you are trying to overcome something like a bad spending habit,  saying  it does not exist does little to help you work toward that goal. Racism is no different and until you are Black and can walk in my shoes, I do not expect that you will fully understand the phenomenon of institutional racism, and it is alive and well in various venues of Cuyahoga County, research reveals.------ And it is prevalent in area racist courtrooms like those of Judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray, who sentences Blacks for alleged  police crimes without either an accusation or testimony from police, in violation of the Sixth Amendment.------- Others that are anti-Black and have no respect for the law include  Case Fixing Judge  Kathleen Ann Keough, Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock, Berea Retired Visiting Judge Michael Weigant and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding Judge Nancy Fuerst, who lets her colleagues do as they please to Blacks and others by denying meritorious affidavits of prejudice against judges like Keough and McLaughlin Murray that seek their necessary removal from cases for documented prejudice. And I mean a database that shows violations of the consitution and the local and civil rules of procedure, as well as the criminal rules of procedure,  the Ohio Rules of Evidence, the Ohio  Lawyer's Professional Code of Responsibility, and the Ohio Judicial Code of Conduct-- --Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman---