Hilarious!

All the help our elected officials requested from the State of Michigan has been refused for years.
Now that they have Kwame in jail, and all our other officials removed by their funky 'emergency
manager' situation, they know what we need to get back on our feet. It should be hilarious, but it
isn't quite.
For one thing, they are claiming, we have to tear down all the abandoned structures in the city.  Well
those could have been torn down already. Our city laws won't allow crews to come in here to do the
work unless some minorities are in the crews doing the work.
Way back when Hissoner (Mayor Coleman A. Young) was leading the city, some of the skilled trades unions had no minorities.
So businesses and status quo organizations told us we could rot.
We have had a rough time in many ways.
Our city is full of elders; but we never did decide we had to run this city according to the terms the suburbs were laying out for us.
Our children come of age, then move out of state or into one of the surrounding suburbs.
We stay, a lot of us, because this is where our vote counts.
We have been criticised for having very well-to do citizens who refused to move outside the city.
The local newspapers claimed families who had two earners, each with heftier six figure salaries
should move rather than send their kids to private schools, and later buy them expensive wheels.
Detroiter's aren't like that.
For instance, I was born in this city. My children's dad was born in this city. My parents came to this
city when one was six months, the other five or six years old.
The suburbs here pay huge taxes so that black people as a whole won't be able to afford to live there
One of my own daughters left here for greener pastures years ago.  She wasn't established here after
college.
Another one of my daughters left when she got married. This city didn't have a job good enough for her new husband.
Businesses here with excellent jobs mostly hate native black Detroiters, and people in a union.
If a business doesn't have to do business with the city, it doesn't.
Most of our neighborhoods are strapped for services.
We love our elected officials though, and are not waiting for the 'rescuers'.
We are biding our time until we can vote again.