Posted on 03/15/2013 5:18:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Councilman Kwame Kenyatta and a packed room of Detroiters warned today of an impending revolt against state intervention, urging residents to stock up on canned food and supplies.
“Even the Bloods in the hood fight for their territory,” Kenyatta said during a 20-minute monologue on the civil rights struggle at today’s city council meeting. “You are going to have to drag me out of here for me to leave.”
Kenyatta cited Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became an intellectual and civil rights icon, because of his position that black people must sacrifice their lives, if necessary, to win freedom and the right to vote. Many in the audience stood up and applauded.
One by one, Detroiters pledged to take to the streets once Gov. Rick Snyder appoints an emergency manager, which is expected Thursday or Friday. Others threatened to block the entrance of city hall.
“Save up and purchase food, canned goods and water because you are going to see a new civil rights movement,” pledged Marie Thornton, a former Detroit Public Schools Board member. “I won’t give up my right to vote. We are going to shut down freeways and we are going to disrupt the economic system.”
Added Valerie Glenn, a community activist: “Make sure you are prepared and you will survive.”
Protests so far have been nonviolent. Demonstrators slowed traffic to a few miles per hour on I-75 and I-94 in the past week. But that’s mild for what’s to come, some warned.
What about black Detroiters who aren’t prepared to fight?
“We have fought for everything we have; how do you sit on the sidelines?” Kenyatta asked.
LOL. It's too bad the FEDS don't prosecute and Governor Snyder can't appoint an emergency manager for the United States of America. The U.S.A. hasn't bottomed out yet. The socialists/criminals keep crashing through the bottom to find a whole new bottom. Detroit on steroids.
Thanks for the ping/pics/links, 'creek. Great thread. Thanks to all posters.
But it is the kind of humor, as Steinbeck said, that “when you open your mouth to laugh, something like a hand squeezes your heart.”
How they have bloodied the great nation we knew.
"We have fought for everything we have; how do you sit on the sidelines?" Kenyatta askeds/b
"We have had everything handed to us, from free food in our free housing to free food in the free public schools; why not sit on the sidelines, as long as we still get to sit?" Kenyatta asked
Once the S.A.R. agreement is up, they will be free to reapply to the State of Michigan for admission.
Man like to keep his rootine. Mundy sick, Tooday half day, Wezdy represent, Thurz be over and out. Bra.
wouldn’t it be a hoot if the gov called in the national guard to just surround the city....cut it off and just let it die a natural death instead of trying to keep it alive artifically.
I see a new movie in the making. “ Escape from Detroit.”
Snake Plissken had it easy in the first two films.
jes doan bring up moonin over the sucredery at feedin’ time and we be good.
My guess would be that the remaining folks there don’t really want to leave. They just want to be fed govt cheese, watch cable tv, talk on Obamaphones, and live in squalor.
Escape from Detroit?
No be’nt whistlin dat ol’ sorro neitha. Word.
People of other races should arm up for a war to protect your life and property if you must stay. But it is best to get out of Detroit. The wilders are racists, killers and theives.
They are still wildin’ in NYC because of the armed thug who was shot by police officers. A self appointed leader of that mob, featured on Russian TV, wants a communist revolution. It sounds like the 70’s.
Maybe this will be a long hot summer in urban liberal land.
This is where idiots get mugged by reality.
There’s not going to be any rioting in Detroit. Last year it was Shabazz threatening to burn the city down. What he ended up doing was collecting volunteers to board up abandoned houses, clean up trash, and mow grass.
OBSCENE!!
SMOKING??? How dare you spread such filth??
This conversation is over.
LOL! OK, I can pack it in for the night with a smile...
I’m rooting for Detroit. In my mind it isn’t DETROIT. It isn’t MICHIGAN. It is Detroit, Michigan, USA. And dagnubbit, I live in the USA.
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