CLEVELAND , Ohio-The  executive board of the Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP unanimously accepted the resignation of its president, George Forbes, at its monthly meeting on Tues. evening, putting to rest controversy over who was leading the Civil Rights organization while the 81-year-old Forbes has been in Florida with his wife in recent months or years.

James Hardiman, the Cleveland attorney who represented the NAACP in the now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation case and the first vice president, will, by organization charter, take the helm until the November general election, one that is expected to draw a cross section of candidates including the Rev. Hilton Smith, an associate minister at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Rev. Tony Minor,  executive director of the United Pastor's in Mission, Mount Olive Baptist Church Pastor Larry Harris, and Dr. Eugene Jordan, an East Cleveland dentist and second vice president for the group.

Hardiman,70,  has said that he will not run for president.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com(www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio-An employee in the child support enforcement department for Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason (pictured), who is not running for reelection this year following a public corruption probe and claims that he knew about it and overlooked the malfeasance, 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.

The commotion began when Lily Miller, a former deputy bailiff for Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Ray Pianka and current county employee under Mason's guidance, 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."

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, a former freelance reporter for the Call and Post Newspaper who now publishes and edits Cleveland Urban News.Com, 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.

Coleman, who still has time to sue for documented defamation and says she will sue Mason, Miller and other county affiliates,  unless it is taken off line,  said that after she complained to Mason's office his spokesperson, Michael O'Malley, allegedly told her that Mason, whom the Plain Dealer , Cleveland's Largest Newspaper, said reportedly had a potential unlawful interest with a public contract relative to a computer wiz that he hired for the county,  was in the room with him during the telephone conversation.

According to Coleman, O'Malley, who is White, called it free speech, and  she was harassed even more by Miller, with repeated defamatory remarks online, and with Buster's approval.

Buster allegedly told Coleman that he was doing the bidding of some corrupt White judges that she had written about, and said he needed their permission to take the defamation down.

The defamation includes Coleman purported to be in in drag online when it is really pictures of former East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer, who made national news as a cross dresser during an reelection campaign that he lost to now East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton.

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  articles on Cleveland.Com and her blogging at www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , including articles on alleged mortgage fraud by Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid and Cuyahoga County Judge John O'Donnell, race discrimination, the Cuyahoga County Corruption probe that to date has netted over 50 guilty pleas or convictions by elected officials or their affiliates, and judicial malfeasance by area judges. Those judges, said Coleman, include O'Donnell, Cleveland Municipal Court Judges Ron Adrine, Michelle Earley and former judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray, McGinty, 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, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst and Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Kathleen Ann Keough.

"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 is 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, and why hasn't he been indicted like former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo."

Coleman said that she will refer the matter to the Cleveland FBI as a potential hate crime and that it is still under investigation by community activists and others. She said she lodged a complaint with University Hts police but it was initially ignored after police there found out that Miller is employed under Mason.

Coleman says that Miller is also harassing her allegedly for Mason in retaliation for articles on McGinty's alleged malfeasance on the common pleas court bench and harassment of Blacks, women, community activists and others.

The Democratic nominee for county prosecutor this year, McGinty has a record of harassing Blacks and women on and off the bench including as a former assistant county prosecutor who prosecuted Black men later released from prison on false rape complaints filed by White women that later recant.

Reach Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone number: 216-932-3114.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com

CLEVELAND, Ohio-An employee in the child support enforcement department for Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason (pictured), who is not running for reelection this year following a public corruption probe and claims that he knew about the malfeasance by elected county officials and overlooked it, is still 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.

The commotion began when Lily Miller, a former deputy bailiff for Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Ray Pianka and current county employee under Mason's guidance, put up a poll on the Internet social media website 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."

CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Chapter NAACP is under scrutiny because its officials cannot confirm whether its 81-year-old president or former president, semi- retired Cleveland Attorney George Forbes (pictured), is still  the president of the local chapter of the nation's most prominent Civil Rights institution. And he can't either, apparently, though he said last week that he has called it quits. (Editor's note: Read the complete article for the potential candidates for the November election for Cleveland NAACP President and see the end of the article as to the harassment of state Sen. Nina Turner by Forbes because he could not control her like some other Cleveland area Black elected officials that allegedly fear him and what he might do to them if they do not cooperate when he says so on community and political issues).

The legal counsel for the Call and Post Newspaper, Cleveland's Black press that is owned by internationally known boxing promoter Don King, and a former Cleveland City Council president famous for throwing a chair at Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson and for losing a bid for mayor against former protege Michael R. White in 1989, Forbes is one of Cleveland's most colorful Black leaders, and one that has been a power broker on political and community issues affecting the Black community for more than four decades beginning when he was first elected to city council in 1963.

He and Cleveland NAACP officials have come under fire in recent months by community activists and others for ignoring Black issues of public concern, including malfeasance around the Imperial Avenue Murders, harassment of Blacks by the common pleas and municipal courts in Cuyahoga County, illegal foreclosures and the denial of construction and other work to a representative number of Black contractors on lucrative projects such as the Cleveland Medical Mart and Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, which opens in downtown Cleveland next month.

But the article says also that he allegedly acknowledged that just this month he sent out a support letter on Cleveland NAACP stationary championing gay marriage saying he is still president, and this happened even though the online encyclopedia dubbed Wikipedia says that he is the former president.

And longtime investigative reporter Carl Monday of Cleveland 19 Action News revealed in a television news expose last week that he reportedly spoke with Forbes, organization First Vice President James Hardiman and others, and that confusion over Forbes' status was obvious, with Monday reporting that Forbes purportedly said, in fact, that he had quit the organization.