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DETROIT: Beware the "Pity Pimps!"

I am watching America fall all over itself over Tiger Woods at the Masters. I think of Michael Jordan, then the President of the United States.

Then I thought about how differences among people of light skin who are different nationalities, sex and age keep them apart. Yet for none of these groups has whining and complaining become a cottage industry, except for blacks.

I see black people all the time driving around the suburbs in BMW's, Range Rovers, etc. You have to wonder how many are affirmative action benefactors, or corrupt recipients of the largess of the Detroit Public Schools over the last twenty years.

Then I listen to Pity Pimps like Mildred Gaddis who lives in a fine home in Oakland County and pays for it by feeding the victimization mindset, and off of the rationalizations of poor people in Detroit who don't want to bother improving themselves because it takes too much energy.

Mildred has many 'Pity Pimp' colleagues who have lived off of the complainers ; the Kilpatrick family, city council, Coleman Young, Sam Riddle, Adolph Mongo, Freeman Hendrix, several Ministers and scores of others who have the taint of corruption, or in some cases the stain, but who live off the guilt and/or political correctness of white people.

I sense that those days are coming to an end, and white people are realizing that the best therapy is to insist that people advance themselves, because realistically there is no other way.

I came here from another country, disgusted at the white people who had created this situation. Then I got here and realized that white people deserve a medal for living among this populace, and keeping quiet about the loud, backward, disgusting ways of a people who exist largely at the behest of a productive majority, and many of whom have no intention of contributing.

The situation in Detroit is almost comical if it wasn't so sad. Listening to Mildred Gaddis invent topics to inflame a populace against 'the man (usually white)' day after day, you realize that it has indeed become a cottage industry.

The leeches who live off this sentiment while donning the robes of protector may be the most disgusting of all. Then again, the sad populace that remains entrenched in the ghetto insist upon it. And the pity pimps are more happy to accomodate them.