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SELF SABOTAGE: DON'T KNOCK IT TILL YOU TRIED IT
Let's get Monica Conyers involved in this GM move to Warren. There is nothing Detroit city residents like more than a politician who tells suburban investors, or even politicians with free tax money (Cobo), to stick it where the sun don't shine. Self sabotage is the one skill Detroiters have mastered.
Whether it's the 'Don't Snitch' policy that ensures dangerous criminals remain loose on the streets, or whether it's heckling those hard workers among them who are trying to succeed by accusing them of 'acting white,' I'd put Detroit up against any inner city in the country when it comes to self sabotage.
Electing politicians who appeal to Detroiters with the promise that they won't let the white devil from the suburbs come in and take over has special appeal to the self saboteurs. The reason this trick works so well because politicians who lower themselves to this little trick invariably end up proving to be completely corrupt. What better way to sabotage yourself and send your city reeling than wallowing in corruption?
Many of you will ask," Why would any group of people want to sabotage themselves?" While polling friends and acquaintances, there is only one plausible explanation that keeps surfacing.
That theory is that Detroiters don't want to work. They don't want to improve themselves; they don't want to get up early every morning; they don't want to be told what to do; they don't care if they live in filth. If it takes self sabotage to keep others around them down too, then so be it.
Many hate to see others improve, work and succeed because it makes them feel inadequate. They'd rather sit in some ramshackle home and blame white people for their plight.
Is there any merit in this explanation that keeps surfacing? From where I sit, it is hard for me to say but I don't have a better answer. Immigrants have come here with nothing and worked their way out of poverty throughout history. Those who have succeeded are able to keep it through hard work. I'm not sure there is any other way.
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