Saturday, December 03, 2011

DETROIT: Playing the race card to keep the gravy train rolling...

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Well it looks like Governor Snyder is not going to wait till Detroiters fix THEIR city but has ordered a financial review of the city which is usually followed by the governor appointing an emergency manager.

The governor is smart to do that because, like always, Detroiters are going to do their usual which is NOTHING. Even Rochelle Riley, a staunch supporter of the city remarked how on the day after Bing made his rousing speech about fixing the city, he went to some public relations events and did nothing about his plan to save the city…as expected.

But what really burns my ass is that Detroiters (those that will lose big time under an emergency manager) started a petition drive to overturn Michigan’s emergency manager law saying that the governor was out to strip Detroiters of their right to elect officials to represent them.

Well so far Detroiters used their right to elect a mayor that scammed the city of millions and landed in jail. They elected a city council whose members accepted bribes and landed in jail. They elected school board members that took money from student programs to enrich themselves with many landing in jail AND THEY HAVE THE GALL TO DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS TO ELECT WHAT…MORE CROOKS, MORE INCOMPETENT TWITS that landed them in this mess?

Somebody has to fix this mess and Detroit and Detroiters have had many chances to do just that…AND THEY FAILED, TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME. Enough already!

The people that are screaming the loudest are those that will lose the most; the parasites that have been feeding on the city for years.

Most disappointing but not surprising is the emergence of supposedly educated and responsible people throwing the race card around which paints them as racists, opportunists and down right demagogues. 

They have the gall to equate the efforts to save the city from bankruptcy as masters just trying to rule the plantation. They have asked why other Michigan cities with emergency managers are mostly populated by blacks and why cities with a mostly white population are not under an emergency manager…maybe because they are not in danger of going bankrupt…how about that for a reason.

To say that the emergency manager law undermines protections guaranteed by the landmark VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965 that outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests and other discriminatory efforts used to prevent blacks from voting is to deny the reality on the ground; the city is going bankrupt!

It is a deliberate effort by those that have been milking the city dry to paint a purely financial action necessitated by the gross mismanagement of the city as somehow a devious plan by “whites” to take over a “black” city and what, steal their assets?

How about the state finally taking over a city that has been a gravy train for so many for so long…



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