CLEVELAND, Ohio-A employee in the child support enforcement department for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason (pictured) is under fire by community activists for calling Blacks "nigger," demanding that Black men be hanged, and promoting White supremacy with White masks that are considered offensive to Blacks.
And data show that Mason, a White man who resides in Parma, Oh., an overwhelmingly White Cleveland suburb where Blacks dare to go or be subjected to routine harassment by police and where a federal district court once found that the city had discriminated against Black firefighters and ordered a consent decree approved by the Cleveland NAACP, has ignored the racially hostile issue since it surfaced in Oct. of 2011 and was brought to his attention.
The commotion began when Lily Miller, a former deputy bailiff for Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Ray Pianka and current county employee under Mason, put up a poll on the Internet social media web site of RealNeo.Us asking if it is okay for Whites to call Blacks nigger with an option of selecting that being called nigger "is legal," and another option of whether it is okay because being a "nigger is what it is."
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason
Miller did not use the the phrase n-word and instead chose to use nigger repeatedly, and she re-posted the poll, even after Blacks like Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman complained and tried to take the poll down.
Coleman said that RealNeo operator and domain holder Jeff Buster, who is White like Miller, would not take it down either and then White bloggers at the site began highlighting the word "nigger" in articles and posts and attacking and defaming her on the Internet. The defamation is still on the Internet and Coleman says she has been threatened by police and others for asking Mason to discipline Miller and to stop pushing her to defame her.
The defamation includes having Miller put Coleman's name and information on the Internet under pictures of former East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer partly naked and in drag, among a host of other lies from Miller, whom the University Hts police have said may need a mental health assessment.
And Cuyahoga County Inspector General Nailah Byrd is allegedly ignoring the activity for Mason and others, Coleman says.
Coleman said that after she complained to Mason's office where his spokesperson Michael O'Malley, who allegedly told her that Mason was in the room with him during the telephone conversation, called it free speech, she was harassed even more by Miller, with repeated defamatory remarks supported with Buster's approval. And O'Malley, said Coleman, would not investigate claims that Miller sent the defamation out on company time, a crime under state law if true as to the misuse of public property for personal use.
The White face supremacy masks, said Coleman, were put up through enlarged pictures on RealNeo because Miller knows that historically that kind of activity is offensive to the Black community.
Miller also commented on RealNeo relative to former CMHA Executive Director George Phillips-Oliver, who is Black, saying that he should be hanged and to "hang him high," comments that were subsequently removed from the web site.
Coleman believes that it was all an effort to discourage her from her online news site at Cleveland Urban News.Com and from blogging at www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com because, among other issues, her articles address the malicious prosecution of innocent Black men like Joaquin Hicks who was just released from prison on a vacated 61-year murder sentence, alleged mortgage fraud by Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid and Cuyahoga County Judge John O'Donnell and some other judges, and then articles on RealNeo on alleged race discrimination. And, said Coleman, she has also written on the ongoing judicial malfeasance and Cuyahoga County Corruption probe that to date has netted over 60 guilty pleas or convictions by county elected officials or their affiliates.
Coleman said that some of the judges doing wrong things on the bench to Blacks and others include O'Donnell, Cleveland Municipal Court Judges Ron Adrine and Michelle Earley, and former judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray, Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock, Lyndhurst Municipal Court Judge Mary Kaye Bozza, Shaker Hts Municipal Court Judge K.J. Montgomery, Bedford Municipal Court Judge Harry Jacob, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul, Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Tim McGinty, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst and Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Kathleen Ann Keough.
And she said that that while some Whites do not internalize that White face masks are offensive to the Black community in general, others are aware of it and push the masks to deliberately insult Blacks.
"White supremacy masks are the beginning and next we can probably expect KKK-type White hoods and employees of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason should not be calling Blacks nigger and then harassing them when they complain," said Coleman. "We again call for Mr. Mason to set a standard of racial tolerance in his office and by his employees on and off the job rather than to allegedly push this sort of thing under the guise of free speech."
Coleman said that she has referred the harassment of her to the Cleveland FBI as a potential hate crime and that it is still under investigation by community activists and others. She said that she lodged a complaint with University Hts police but it was initially ignored after police there found out that Miller is employed under Mason. She said also that she believes that Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes is also behind the attack on her because she will not be quiet and stop writing and blogging on anti-Black issues that Forbes wants quieted to benefit his law firm, including the malicious prosecutions of Black people in Cuyahoga County.
Mason is stepping down and did not seek reelection this year after being accused by the mainstream media and others of overlooking bribery, fraud and other malfeasance by some county elected officials and affiliates of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party since convicted of crimes of political corruption, including case fixing by former common pleas judges Steven Terry and Bridget McCafferty, and bribe taking by former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo, both convicted and facing over 20 years in prison.
Coleman says that Miller is also harassing her allegedly for Mason in retaliation for articles on his close friend McGinty, who resigned his judgeship last year and is now the Democratic nominee for county prosecutor for the November election.
McGinty won the March 6 Democratic primary by only 35 percent of the vote after buying it and has a record as a prior common pleas judge and former assistant county prosecutor of illegal prosecuting Black men for rape of White women that later recant, putting them in prison via orders later overturned on appeal, and simply harassing the general public across racial, ethnic and gender lines.
Reach Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman at www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, ktcoleman8@aol.com and phone number: 216-932-3114.