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Monica For Mayor
Detroit, the fact that the Auto Show is looking at options now instead of immediately choosing Cobo as it's location is the result of voter gullibility. Detroit's voters have continually voted for it's most racist politicians, seeking out people who will fight with the suburbs because the suburbs are largely white. Detroiters don't understand that spending and investing in Detroit comes from white suburbia. They don't care ; they just want to strike out at someone or something and blame them for their troubles.
Unfortunately rabble rousing has become a lucrative cottage industry in Detroit. Radio personality Mildred Gaddis rants about how the suburbs benefit too from the auto show so the suburbs should pay. Every event in every metro community can have positive spillover effects. Travellers who come to Detroit to see Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum may either stay and/or eat in downtown Detroit. That doesn't mean that Detroit owes Dearborn tax money.
Mildred thinks the suburbs should pay Detroit because they are nice enough to host the auto show. That is backward and convoluted thinking. It is a priviledge for Detroit to host the auto show, ensuring that they enjoy the greatest possible benefits from it. If it is located in the suburbs now, Detroit will be denied the priviledge of hosting the show, and will benefit to a much, much lesser degree.
Why did this happen? Freeman Hendrix, Mildred's close ally wrote a letter to Conyers, Reeves, Watson and Collins on the eve of the mayoral election hoping that he could portray himself as the protector of the city from the white devil in the suburbs and get elected by killing this legislation. Since then, many on the city council see it as an issue where they can prove their defiance against the suburbs and get reelected in November.
All this political posturing is strictly selfish ; an attempt to feather their own nests at the expense of the city. They are being offered our tax money to fix an asset that cannot ever be removed from the city. But they decided to look a gift horse in the mouth, and make more racists accusations to a suburban citizenry who, after forty years of it, are tiring of this game.
It is discouraging to continually watch your tax money go to a city that has little ability of raising it's own tax money, then be insulted and become the subject of racist accusations because it is not enough. Meanwhile the city's politicians line their own pockets to a degree rarely if ever seen in America.
If you don't believe me, type Detroit Public Schools into Wikipedia and prepare to be shocked and sickened with an unending cataloguing of adults stealing from their children, and ensuring their children will have no textbooks, no toilet paper, no future.
Will Detroit voters ever realize that the people stealing from them is not white suburbia, but the very people who appeal to them at election time as protectors against the suburbs? With only 23% of Detroiters graduating high school, it is unlikely. They will continue to circle the wagons and build walls and elect thieves.
Detroit does not deserve the auto show, and it looks like it will not have it, victims of their own stupidity. That's okay, they can get back at the suburbs by reelecting Monica Conyers. In fact, why not make her Mayor. We will give her whatever she wants, we promise. We will spend and invest in Detroit and your city will come back from the dead, while we listen to Monica insult and accuse us of racism. Yeah, right
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