Writing at the leftie Counterpunch, Detroit school board member Elena Herreda makes some sort of argument against the way the finances of the city of Detroit have been handled:
Each of these two [Governor Rick Snyder and Emergency Manager Roy Roberts] have caused Detroit Public Schools to go into exponentially greater debt than before the “emergency” was created by the governor and his mouthpiece corporate media. The people of Michigan (82% in Detroit) repealed the Emergency Manager law 52% to 48% when it became clear that the law was nothing more than a license to loot and terminate collective bargaining agreements and sell off public goods to private interests, who do not have to bid or say who they are or where they got their money.
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Detroit is the epicenter of the racialized privatization battle going on in Michigan, but it is only one part of the story. The Emergency Manager remains in charge of Detroit Public Schools despite the repeal of the law. Everything the State could do to subvert the vote was done, and when the vote came in at against the Emergency Manager law, the governor ignored the vote and kept the EMs in charge.
There is utter contempt for the people in this lawless corrupt state.
By scare-quoting ‘emergency’, this woman denies that a shrinking populace and a shrinking tax base have sent the city into death spiral. Nothing is being stolen from the people of Detroit. There’s nothing to steal. She ignores that the existing residents of Detroit have not bucked up and saved their city. They have not adapted. They are passive recipients of whatever politicians are willing to allocate to them. Where is the organic, grassroots drive to create something of substance there that can support public services? Lacking such drive, community organizers acting on behalf of ignorant and non-starting citizens must lay blame at external forces. And as usual, the activists and citizens aren’t asking for help, they’re demanding justice. This is a way to get help while maintaining ego and political power.
And what speeds up the entire death spiral process is the desperate election of activists and political organizers like Herreda who take the stage because they are the only ones who are actually offering solutions, however wrong-headed. Nobody wants to hear “well, this is just a process that has to run its course.” Instead, they’re drawn to the firebrand who cries for action.
As Shikha Dalmia has pointed out, the city of Detroit has exorbitant property and income taxes – the highest in the state. Yet receipts for both have fallen 28% and 50% respectively as property values and incomes have fallen as the more prosperous citizens move away. Desperate attempts do not work in the midst of the death spiral, they speed it up.
For context, a video below of the Mexican-American Detroit resident Herreda comparing border patrol agents to the KKK.
Herrada is the sort of radical Leftist Orc that in a more sensible age would be ejected from the nation because of her poisonous politics. But alas, we are stuck with her. Although I have to say, she inadvertently stumbles on a truth with her first sentence:
Detroit is the largest of the internal colonies of Michigan.
Indeed! Detroit is an outpost of black colonialism, the blacks having invaded a formerly white city. Only unlike white colonialism that enhanced every third-world dump it entered, blacks took a first-world city — indeed one of the finest of first-world cities — and turned it into a corrupt, stinking third-world cesspool.
LOL. If the KKK was not real, they should have to invent it. I feel a bit like the devil to the Christians. I should ask liberals to put me on the payroll – I will give them something to point to and be afraid of.
I woke up this morning to a story in the Oakland Tribune about a block of small businesses being vandalized on Xmas. There are citizens in inner-cities who are invested in keeping the inner-cities the hell holes they have become.
Indeed! Detroit is an outpost of black colonialism, the blacks having invaded a formerly white city. Only unlike white colonialism that enhanced every third-world dump it entered, blacks took a first-world city — indeed one of the finest of first-world cities — and turned it into a corrupt, stinking third-world cesspool.
DC is another.
I hope Herreda succeeds. Someone has to tear the who stinking edifice down before it can be rebuilt.
I saw two black guys in a pick-up truck and said, wow, I don’t remember the last black contractor I saw. And two black guys? That’s gotta be some kind of record. But it turns out they worked in maintenance. Wonders ceased.
Uh, a better example would be walking into a diner with KKK on one side and MS-13 on the other. As a white guy, if I didn’t just walk back out the door, where would I sit, hmm I wonder.
Every yee haa on this page disrespecting this woman’s opinion is a undercover KKK and knows the Border Patrol is a new name for their set up against us all.Race has nothing to do with it so stop your bloodclot crying.Because at the end of the day you are losing the race.All of your racist comments prove to the world who`s brain is really small and stuck on stupid
Anti- Racist, your tipping your hand again…. come on don’t make it so obvious or it will never work.. you are far and away the worst agent provocateur i have ever seen. Dude lighten up the message is clear.
And as for Detroit i had an excellent recovery plan for the city. Everybody will get to continue living the way they want, it will pump loads of cash into the local economy and the entire nation will benefit greatly from it…. Ever see escape from New York?
Pop quiz, how is Promoting Justice NOT like Kermit the frog…. Kermit gets paid to have someone’s fist up his butt.
Yeah its obvious i know I just get a kick out of the fact the A_R has to take off one of his boots to post on here …
White people are stealing from Detroit via white flight
Suburbs are leeching off the city
Poople of Color will have their revenge
We feel you may be wrong Anti-Racist. It is good that casper devil is leaving New African Homeland Detroit. But you are right white robs the African.
Herrada is the sort of radical Leftist Orc that in a more sensible age would be ejected from the nation because of her poisonous politics. But alas, we are stuck with her. Although I have to say, she inadvertently stumbles on a truth with her first sentence:
Detroit is the largest of the internal colonies of Michigan.
Indeed! Detroit is an outpost of black colonialism, the blacks having invaded a formerly white city. Only unlike white colonialism that enhanced every third-world dump it entered, blacks took a first-world city — indeed one of the finest of first-world cities — and turned it into a corrupt, stinking third-world cesspool.
LOL. If the KKK was not real, they should have to invent it. I feel a bit like the devil to the Christians. I should ask liberals to put me on the payroll – I will give them something to point to and be afraid of.
I woke up this morning to a story in the Oakland Tribune about a block of small businesses being vandalized on Xmas. There are citizens in inner-cities who are invested in keeping the inner-cities the hell holes they have become.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22264259/block-businesses-struck-by-vandals-east-oakland
Indeed! Detroit is an outpost of black colonialism, the blacks having invaded a formerly white city. Only unlike white colonialism that enhanced every third-world dump it entered, blacks took a first-world city — indeed one of the finest of first-world cities — and turned it into a corrupt, stinking third-world cesspool.
DC is another.
I hope Herreda succeeds. Someone has to tear the who stinking edifice down before it can be rebuilt.
I saw two black guys in a pick-up truck and said, wow, I don’t remember the last black contractor I saw. And two black guys? That’s gotta be some kind of record. But it turns out they worked in maintenance. Wonders ceased.
Uh, a better example would be walking into a diner with KKK on one side and MS-13 on the other. As a white guy, if I didn’t just walk back out the door, where would I sit, hmm I wonder.
Every yee haa on this page disrespecting this woman’s opinion is a undercover KKK and knows the Border Patrol is a new name for their set up against us all.Race has nothing to do with it so stop your bloodclot crying.Because at the end of the day you are losing the race.All of your racist comments prove to the world who`s brain is really small and stuck on stupid
Anti- Racist, your tipping your hand again…. come on don’t make it so obvious or it will never work.. you are far and away the worst agent provocateur i have ever seen. Dude lighten up the message is clear.
And as for Detroit i had an excellent recovery plan for the city. Everybody will get to continue living the way they want, it will pump loads of cash into the local economy and the entire nation will benefit greatly from it…. Ever see escape from New York?
Pop quiz, how is Promoting Justice NOT like Kermit the frog…. Kermit gets paid to have someone’s fist up his butt.
Yeah its obvious i know I just get a kick out of the fact the A_R has to take off one of his boots to post on here …