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-The City of Seattle has a documented relationship with the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center organization dating back to 1985, surviving three prior administrations of Charles Royer, Norm Rice, and Paul Schell .
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-Former City Attorney Mark Sidran, illegally “decertified” the AAHMCC paving the wary for the city to breach it’s contract with the AAHMCC
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-The Seattle School District entered into an agreement to sell the building to the AAHMCC Feb 12, 1998.
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-Bob Flowers former AAHMCC board chair and Urban League board member refused to provide down payment on Colman school violating his fiduciary responsibility to the AAHMCC organization. Flowers was also a member of the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle's board of directors at the time, a clear conflict of interest, in that the Urban League would later illegaly purchase the Colman school for an Urban League Village.
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-When the AAHMCC Board presented a check for $50,000 to the Seattle School District for down payment on the building, it was returned.
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-The city appropriated $400,000 originally awarded to the AAHMCC to the urban League for feasibility study on Urban League Village.
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-The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle conspired with City of Seattle to purchase the building in violation of the existing contract with the AAHMCC.
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-The Seattle School District officials claimed no executed contract existed with the AAHMCC until the day of the school board vote on the deal with the Urban League when a copy of the executed agreement mysteriously appeared.
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-African American students disproportionately suffer from academic failure in the Seattle public schools and are disproportionately represented in the Washington state prisons system.
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