[edcoil]

Detroit blames racism on its failures.

Course, there are 21 (all blacks) on that council.

[Lewite]

Those 21 ARE the racists that are ruining everything there. Go to www.detroityes.com/index.html and see what is left of a beautiful city after the dumbocrappers defecated on it.

[ItsJeff]

Course, there are 21 (all blacks) on that council.

If you're referring to the Detroit City Counsel, there are 9 members, two of whom are white. And that's only because Maryanne Mahaffey retired. She would have been easily re-elected as council president.

[mjolnir]

I have to stick up for Detroit!

Take away the fact that it votes for Democrats more consistently than any other city in the United States and the consequences of those votes, and it's a GREAT CITY.

No city is friendlier. Thousands of people who came to see the Super Bowl from Pittsburgh and Seattle can attest to that.

Other than the young and ill-informed, most people living there don't support all of the corrupt communist (In Coleman Young's case, that's literal-- he almost certainly had been a member of the Communist Party) politicians they elect--- they simply have been brainwashed to think of Republicans as a smoother, sneakier, at best milder version of the KKK.

After that, the City Council is it's biggest problem, as you say. But the race of the members isn't why the Council is so terrible (not that you said it was). The reason the City Council is so terrible is that all nine of its members are voted as at large rather than by ward. This utterly diminishes their accountability.