Is partisan bickering and the impending nail-biting election getting you down? Kick back and enjoy another episode of the Africa Town Follies! See my previous post for background.
If I may quote myself: “The Detroit City Council wants to declare the dilapidated city ‘Africa Town’ and siphon off more taxpayers’ money for yet more skin color preferences.”
On this week’s show, the screeching squirrels on the council have come to the ridiculously and embarrassingly obvious conclusion that it’s unconstitutional to give away government money based on race, so the plan has been “revised.” Now if only the rest of their legion were this smart. Minority set-aside programs abound everywhere else.
While the man behind the originial, skin color-based Africa Town fiasco, Claud Anderson, may have a few good building-black-businesses ideas under his “Powernomics” plan, he has a nasty tendency to blame others for black people’s ills. And I doubt he’s read the Constitution lately. Fine document. I recommend he pick up a copy.
I’m no economist, but as far as I can tell it is better to build businesses through hard work, ingenuity, initiative and creativity rather than through government aid. Am I wrong? Wouldn’t be the first or last time. 
Why are immigrants of all races able to build businesses on nothing or by pooling money together with family and friends, but blacks in Detroit, who’ve lived in an open democracy and capitalist nation their whole lives, can’t seem to make it without race-based this or race-based that?
Liberal ideology is the culprit. Yes, I am going there again. You tell people often enough they can’t be successful without white liberal patronage, this is what happens. I’m simplyfying it, of course, but you get the point.
Read Nolan Finley’s assessment of the plan. Killer. The race-based scheme has everybody up in arms, from Hispanics to the Detroit News editorial board.
In my previous post I quoted Kay Everett, a Detroit City Council member who voted against the plan. In another op-ed, she pleads:
I, too, cry for my Detroit. Why the tears?I cry because Detroit, a city on the move, may fall prey to hate and become a national embarrassment.
“Powernomics,” a proposal for increasing African-American employment in the city, is a suicidal form of reverse racism and a bad deal for Detroit.
Stop the madness of scapegoating immigrants and others who are not Americans of African descent. Non-black immigrants were blamed in the “Powernomics” report for depleting community resources and taking jobs from blacks. So Detroit City Council passed two racist resolutions that will divide our beloved city as much as the deadly race “riots” of 1967 and 1943.
I won’t bore you with more of my analysis. You know what I think about this already, and you guys are smart. Talk among yourselves.
By the way. The election is tomorrow! I’ll do a little live-blogging tomorrow night, but you’re all invited to live-comment a lot. During live-commenting for the third presidential debate, you guys generated 544 comments. Think you can do better?
(Africa Town hat tip: Booker Rising)
