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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.
Marvin Gaye: War Is Not The Answer
After World War Two, periodically you would hear about Japanese fighters, isolated on some remote island in southeast Asia, still fighting long after the war was over, and everyone else had moved on.
Hmmm. Isolated, out of touch, still living in the past - sounds like the elderly female voting block that dominates Detroit politics. They are still fighting as if the race riots in Detroit are fresh in their minds. Senility is a wonderful thing. You get to be young forever.
Somebody should tell them that Coleman Young has passed and the suburbs just voted heavily in support of a black President. Be sure to welcome them to the Twenty First Century while they vote for the next politician who promises to protect them from the suburbs.
Until then, you can hear them every morning calling in to Mildred Gaddis' radio show.
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.
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