Kwame Kenyatta of the Detroit City Council is calling it
quits 18 months before his term runs out…why?
Kenyatta is the fellow that opposed any state intervention
in the hapless condition of the City of Detroit
calling the intervention as the master coming to the plantation to order people
around.
His unfortunate racist attitude and that of many residents
of the city is what brought the city to its economic knees and is prohibiting
the city from getting up from those knees and standing tall again.
I have often talked about the culture of incompetence and
corruption in the city government that has to be addressed if the city is to
become a legitimate city once again and Kenyatta, although not caught up in the
corruption that has stained city government, was an example of the incompetence
that prevailed in city government and made it incapable of addressing the
myriad ills of the city in any sensible and constructive ways; he was and is
all about black control even if that is over a carcass of the city.
Kenyatta is also seeing the handwriting on the wall since
future elections to the city council will be according to wards or districts
and not “at-large” where people in the central city elected ALL members of the
council.
Elections by district means that just being black is enough
to get you elected; you now have to convince the electorate that you are
capable of helping that district prosper or at least get the city services they
deserve. In the past, council members were not responsible to any one group of
city residents or any specific area of the city; all that will change and in my
opinion, for the better.
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