TODAY Concerned Parents, members of the LGBT community, and students leaflet Ricki Barlow’s event!
Ricki Barlow knows this event is BAD for students so he has hidden the agenda of the meeting after he was called out on it! He did not respond to a single concerned parent phone call, letter, or email.
Ricki instead demonstrated he knows how to use the delete key! But you can’t delete citizens who work against what is wrong!
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Teen town hall invites 300 students down to city hall to discuss issues important to teens. Check out this video from last year’s event with Gabrielle Union. It was a great event that was an inspiration to our students.
SADLY THIS YEAR’S SCHEDULED EVENT IS A STUNNING DISAPPOINTMENT
I was shocked to receive notice that this year’s Teen Town Hall an event many high school students look forward to features a speaker whom embodies values NOT shared by most parents in our community.
Frank Mir whom I outline in my letters below does not hold a candle to Gabrielle Union and is NOT the role model we want for our students.
Below are my letters to Mr. Ricki Barlow and Mr. Dwight Jones Superintendent of CCSD voicing my complaint. I hope that others will speak up that these are NOT the values we have for our students, we believe that Las Vegas students are capable of so much more.
Tell Ricki Barlow that Station Casinos (whom contributed the maximum to his election campaign and is associated with Fertitta Corporation owner of UFC according to FEC filing ) that special interests are not supposed to dictate curriculum for our students.
Please contact Ricki Barlow’s office at (702) 229-6405 Fax: (702) 382-8558 Link to Email Site
Tell Ricki Barlow HATE is NOT a Family Value
Compare and contrast with the REAL Frank Mir NOT an example for our students. Our high achieving students put up with enough of this moron talk. Teen Town hall is about achievement – not- meat heads!
Full Contact Fighter Magazine Article about Call to Cancel Frank
Frank Mir is NOT an example for our students.
Please contact Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s office at (702) 229-6241 Fax: (702) 385-7960 Link to Email Site
Please contact Dwight Jones Superintendent of Clark County Schools – Tell him to keep students home from hate. Email
Any member of the public can complete a Public Concern Form to be handled by the district to investigate and take appropriate action. Email this form to huntsbl@interact.ccsd.net
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Ricki Barlow NEVER responded to complaints. On Monday, October 24, 2011 offered a new revision to why Frank Mir was speaking:
I also hope you can tune in to KCLV Channel 2 to watch more than 200 high school students as they participate in the annual Ward 5 Teen Town Hall! Teen Town Hall will air live at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26. It will be rebroadcast at 3 p.m. Oct. 27; at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29; at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30; and at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Teens from Rancho, Canyon Springs, Western and Mojave high schools will discuss a variety of topics, including the issue of bullying, building confidence and having discipline.
Joining me as co-host is mixed martial artist Frank Mir. Mir was born and raised in Las Vegas, and currently lives here with his family. At the age of 4 he started studying martial arts, and went on to obtain his Black Belt in Kenpo Karate as a teenager. He excelled in wrestling at Bonanza High School and won the Nevada State High School Wrestling Championships in the heavyweight division. After graduating from high school, he started studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and now holds the Black Belt. In recent years he has also become an accomplished Muay Thai Kickboxer.
Mir has amassed one of the most impressive careers in mixed martial arts. His record currently stands at 13 wins and five losses. He has held the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight Title twice. His impressive career was almost cut short after he suffered a major car accident in 2004, but through dedication and hard work he was able to return to the top of his sport.
Mir and the UFC are big supports of the Shriner’s Hospital for Children and the Boys and Girl’s Club of Southern Nevada.
As a Las Vegas native and amazing athlete, Mir has helped to shine the spotlight on our great city. I am excited to have someone of his caliber to speak with our youth about hard work and dedication, as well as the importance of giving back to the community.
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Original Letters of complaint below:
October 18, 2011
Ricki Barlow Ward 5 City Council City Hall, Tenth Floor400 Stewart Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Dear Mr. Barlow,
I was shocked to receive your community events email yesterday and see the following event listed:
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Teen Town Hall Oct. 26
Tune in to KCLV-TV 2 or watch online at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, to watch this Teen Town Hall live in City Council chambers. Frank Mir, Ultimate Fighting Championship former heavyweight champion and current competitor, will co-host with me. We will discuss current events related to teen youth with invited school groups.
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As a parent in our community I am appalled that Frank Mir has been selected by your office as a stunning example for our youth to follow – when clearly his behavior specifically his hate speech make him anything BUT a model for the young men and women we want our students to become.
We want our students to pursue a college education which Mr. Mir has not done. We want our students to engage in careers that build our community, while all that Mr. Mir is notable for outside his ring performances is poor personal choices in hate speech and bullying behaviors via social media that we work so hard as parents to ensure our own teenagers do not engage in.
I would hope as a public official that your office performed some due diligence on the reputation of Frank Mir and would not allow him use your office to help him rebuild his public image after a very public controversy last year when he stated he wanted to be the first to murder another fighter in the ring.
Additionally Mr. Mir’s manager has a very public history of homophobic remarks. How would you like such comments directed at any one of our students in the future, or lord forbid Mr. Mir is asked about his transgressions by any student in the audience?
“Whoever gave you that quote is a pussy, and a f—ing faggot and a liar. …
“You f—ing dumb bitch, f— you Loretta Hunt.”
Perhaps viewing the video at this link with the words from Mr. White, Frank Mir’s manager’s mouth at this link will better illustrate it for you. (Click on the link to watch it)
It does nothing to promote diversity when you invite a fighter who claims to be “built like a black man” to come speak to students.
The UFC has been called upon by their own industry journalists to shut down its homophobic slurs. UFC is a bad corporate neighbor that has refused to end this hate. What message are you sending to our LGBTQ students by proudly holding up a champion of an industry that cashes in on promoting hate toward them?
Your past teen town halls have served as an inspiration for our community with such great examples for our students as actress Gabrielle Union and Pablo Barragan. To place Frank Mir at the same level of these intellectually accomplished individuals is an insult to the service they provided in participating in your prior events.
I believe in Las Vegas. I believe in our families. I believe that within our community are better speakers whom reflect the values we want our students to live up to. Frank Mir is an insult to our community and the Teen Town Hall event.
I understand that my letter may invite Mr. Mir and Mr. White to fling epitaphs in my direction from their limited vocabularies. Yet I believe as a mother committed to a better community it is well worth their attacks to organize other parents against this event.
Christine Kramar Mother of Four Publisher VegasfortheFamily.comCC: Dwight Jones, Superintendent Clark County Schools
CC: Mayor Carolyn Goodman
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October 18, 2011
Dwight Jones Superintendent Clark County Schools 5100 W Sahara Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89106Dear Mr. Jones,
I am asking that CCSD withdraw its support of the following event and speaker:
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Teen Town Hall Oct. 26
Tune in to KCLV-TV 2 or watch online at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, to watch this Teen Town Hall live in City Council chambers. Frank Mir, Ultimate Fighting Championship former heavyweight champion and current competitor, will co-host with me. We will discuss current events related to teen youth with invited school groups.
________________________________________________________________________
As a parent in our community I am appalled that Frank Mir has been selected by Ricki Barlow’s office as a stunning example for our youth to follow – when clearly his behavior specifically his hate speech make him anything BUT a model for the young men and women we want our students to become.
We want our students to pursue a college education which Mr. Mir has not done. We want our students to engage in careers that build our community, while all that Mr. Mir is notable for outside his ring performances is poor personal choices in hate speech and bullying behaviors via social media that we work so hard as parents to ensure our own teenagers not to engage in. Any student imitating Mr. Mir in our district would be expelled.
I would hope as a public official that your office performed some due diligence on the reputation of Frank Mir and would not allow him use this forum to help him rebuild his public image after a very public controversy last year when he stated he wanted to be the first to murder another fighter in the ring.
Additionally Mr. Mir’s manager has a very public history of homophobic remarks. How would you like such comments directed at any one of our students in the future, or lord forbid Mr. Mir is asked about his transgressions by any student in the audience?
“Whoever gave you that quote is a pussy, and a f—ing faggot and a liar. …
“You f—ing dumb bitch, f— you Loretta Hunt.”
Perhaps viewing the video at this link with the words from Mr. White, Frank Mir’s manager’s mouth at this link will better illustrate it for you.
It does nothing to promote diversity when you invite a fighter who claims to be “built like a black man” to come speak to students.
The UFC has been called upon by their own industry journalists to shut down its homophobic slurs. What message are you sending to our LGBTQ students by proudly holding up a champion of an industry that cashes in on promoting hate toward them?
Past teen town halls have served as an inspiration for our community with such great examples for our students as actress Gabrielle Union and Pablo Barragan. To place Frank Mir at the same level of these intellectually accomplished individuals is an insult to the service they provided in participating in prior events.
I believe in Las Vegas. I believe in our families. I believe that within our community are better speakers whom reflect the values we want our students to live up to. Frank Mir is an insult to our community and the Teen Town Hall event.
I understand that my letter may invite Mr. Mir and Mr. White to fling epitaphs in my direction from their limited vocabularies. Yet I believe as a mother committed to a better community it is well worth their attacks to organize other parents against this event.
Christine Kramar Mother of Four Publisher VegasfortheFamily.com CC: Ricki Barlow, City Council Ward 5 CC: Mayor Carolyn Goodman
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