Detroit News' Jim Crower answer for Detroit's inner city, according to Gannett's select cynics, is to starve them out, cut them off from assistance, send more to prison, force them to become religious, make life/survival so miserable and oppressive they will either behave, or move away. Or it may be, take over the infrastructure and force social change by total economic dictatorship via Emergency Management , [a system akin to "embezzlement by fiat," (authoritative order)] by which TeaPartisans have legalized and enacted targeted legislation which effectively cheats the citizens of urban Detroit out of their city's assets and valuable infrastructure via legal and corporate cannibalization. (Think privatize for profit: Cobo Hall, corporatize and privately operate Metro Detroit's International Airport, push the Detroit Waterworks under suburban control/ownership, strip the Detroit Institute of Art of its treasures, etc.)
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| Iconic Civil Rights photo by native Detroiter the late Bill Hudson (AP/UPI) of Firefighte |
The use of the "police-power" of law and enactment of radical legislation to set back and derail voter rights and disfranchise citizens of color shanks citizens who once had the right to be equal partners in their own governmental affairs only since the late 1960's (and then only by Supreme Court Order and Congressional action).
This is wrong. Dangerously wrong.
Jim Crowers certifying a permanent underclass by default: We now have a tribe of individuals so much isolated, inbred, cut off from the culture and the wider thinking, the manners and morals of the greater society of the state of Michigan as to be crassly and effectively become classified (by the Jim Crowers) as "homo sapiens detroitsis urbanus." A de facto mythical, degrading classification for a morphological, politically differentiated population.
So out of those in the universe of the Jim Crow crowd (race fearful who create by editorial slams, thinly disguised diatribe, and prejudice) arises a strong case for creating a de facto new classification of Detroit's inner city human beings (using the power of their media). It makes perfectly svengali sense. Theirs isn't a collaborative, progressive or humane effort. Their goals are not charity and human understanding or compassion. They strive outrageously for only political and cultural advantage. They seek a "bar talk" milquetoast excuse for their racial indifference and separateness.
The Jim Crower's use of statistics, alarming anecdotal news stories, religious conclusions, or ideological prattle has made it easy to practice and separate out an entire population from, and aside from, the vastly superior "others" they believe themselves to be. The Jim Crow branding of urban Detroiters as the mythical, deridable "homo sapiens detroitsis urbanus" is not only wrong, it is ultimately evil.
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| Segregation's bitter taste in the Jim Crow South (National Archives) |
Such de facto labeling becomes a means by which to justify the harsh and aggressive attitudes and laws now being created to control and subjugate their economic and social gulag. It becomes a means of avoiding contact, fostering further isolation, and inveighing against and diminishing the necessary and vital economic underpinning for any hope for a better tomorrow no matter how long it takes to arrive.
"Ita finitima sunt falsa veris, ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere"-Detroit has effectively become a TeaPartisan "Plantation" and its inhabitants are being relegated to a sub-standard group of disinherited citizens (indentured servants, or worse) who are considered and characterized by Jim Crowers unable or unwilling to fend for themselves. As a lawless and amoral society( as often described by Jim Crowers) there is a need for dictatorial leadership and direct executive control of the kind that comes down from Gov. Snyder and Andy Dillion via the all encompassing powers delegated to the Emergency (Finance) Manager.
"Falsehood often borders so nearly on the truth that a wise man should not trust himself to the precipice."
-- Cicero
Do these savants understand what they have done to themselves by the way of taking on the ongoing ownership and sole responsibility for Detroit? What then?
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The Business Leaders for Michigan, Rick Snyder, and the TeaPublican faction of the Michigan GOP aren't capable of staying the course to any reasonable outcome. It's an unmitigated and endless democratic disaster if future efforts in terms of state funding and personal investment (in pro-active involvement don't far exceed past efforts by these elements) are not put in place. Snyder's Detroit re-invention may be the perfect academic "worse case" study for poly sci majors far into the future.
The Crow's Nesters need to heed sage advice- "ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum - from the mistake of the other man, the wise man corrects his own."
Parting Note: Gannett's published stance published via its editorial statement, printed 1958, presented The Detroit News as a publication that is "consistently conservative on economic issues and consistently liberal on civil liberties issues."
Where is The News today based on this stance? Anyone's guess. But it's crystal clear currently "civil liberties" have been "consistently" put aside.
Background Reading:
Recent examples of these behaviors on the Detroit News/Michigan View by Nolan Finley - Michigan is breeding poverty (February 12, 2012) - If life's cheap, murder's not news (February 5, 2012) - Michigan to end welfare as a career choice (October 7, 2011) - The three I’s of Detroit's decline (September 19, 2010) and by Henry Payne - Send 'em to Cranbrook (January 17, 2012) - The real crime (January 17, 2012) - Peters’ failed compassion (October 4, 2011) - MackGOP: The Republican fence (September 25, 2011) - Welfare trap = wealth gap (August 25, 2011 ) and an old piece by Payne in the National Review "Eminem’s Real Detroit" (November 18, 2002). Also last posting by "the Blog Prof", aka Chris Kobus, now a frequent contributor on the Michigan View (WARNING Disturbing Content).
On the Reader:
Responses to racism on the Gazette - "RACE as the GOP’s Dog Whistle Political “Tool”" - "Michissippi: A Rotten State of Affairs - A Brief Overview" and "Déjà Vu (Part 2): Buchanan's Pitch of Racial Undertones - "Suicide of a Superpower" a GOP Dog Whistle"
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