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Friday, October 26, 2018

RF23 Time and Time Again

RF23 Time and Time Again...


I keep asking this question, and never get any replies or answers.  How come this happens in black areas?  And every-time, there’s the same excuse as to why, like this:

“Our problems reflect the culmination of years of inadequate accountability, suspect governance and, quite frankly, inexcusable management decisions,”  Hubert Grimes (Int. President Bethune-Cookman University)

What inadequate accountability? Well, there was this incident involving the former BCU president Edison Jackson when an investigation found the university was vastly overpaying for a new dorm, which was originally estimated at $72.1 million and now will cost $306 million over 40 years. (Jackson bolted a year before his contract was up)

What suspect governance? Well, we do have a major problem about the….university’s accrediting organization, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), plans a visit Thursday and Friday. SACS placed the university on probation earlier this year because of issues ranging from financial instability to inflated enrollment numbers.  So if the school loses its accreditation what will happened to the students because of this suspect governance?…If Bethune-Cookman loses accreditation, students won’t be eligible for federal grants or loans. Students have said on social media and elsewhere that if the situation doesn’t get resolved, they will be forced to leave.
 
I just posted an article from a former NFL player crying about why white coaches keep their jobs longer than blacks and what did I say, I said, if blacks want their own, by their own, then do it..but this story is way too common whether it be youth league sports, home associations, school boards, city councils, non profit organizations, charities, churches you name it… It appears that if blacks touch it, it’s the Midas touch in reverse.   Instead of gold, it turns to…….