Recently, Detroit News Columnist Nolan Finley wrote and excellent piece on the fiasco that is the Detroit City Council.
He makes some great points, but some things he wrote really got me steamed. Not at him, but the the Council and its racist talk.
Finley wrote about a recent meeting where the Council discussed (er, shouted down opposition) about the failed Cobo deal.
Here's some of what he wrote about the meeting and President Monica Conyers.
A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.
Juxtapose the place and the faces and imagine a white Livonia City Council treating a black union representative with such overt racial hostility. The Justice Department would swoop down like a hawk, and the Rev. Al Sharpton would clog Five Mile Road with protesters.
When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, "Those workers look like you; they don't look like me."
Desperate, he invoked President Barack Obama's message of unity and was angrily warned, "Don't you say his name here."
What a pathetic display by someone who is supposed to represent the citizens of Detroit, even the WHITE ones.
Finley's point about Al Sharpton was great. Sharpton doesn't care about fighting racism because if he were, he'd be on the phone with Conyers for her racist rants.
I'm glad Finley has the courage to expose this overt racism because he will be dubbed a racist himself. That's how it works with most members of the Detroit City Council: If you are white and agree with their lunacy, it's okay. However, you point out the fact most members of the Council have no idea what they are doing and you hate black people.
Detroit is a mess and the Council is making it worse with its anti-white attitudes. I am not about to call for a boycott of Detroit because there are some great people that live there that don't care about race. They care about getting the city on its feet again.
I grew up in Detroit and lived through the Coleman Young years when he was spouting the nonsense about the "8 Mile Line," which was code for "The Line That Divides Whites and Blacks."
We need to get past this nonsense.
My hope is Ken Cockrel Jr. and Dave Bing can work together and rid detroit of the do-nothing members of the Council.
If things don't change, I will have to think about whether I want to spend my money in a city where the leaders hate me because of the color of my skin.
Until next time, enjoy Michigan and don't give up on Detroit.
