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Oh it gets better (or worse, depending on how you look at it).

From Click On Detroit/Channel 4:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/18864829/detail.html#-

Conyers said her comments were not race-baiting. "Everybody's played the race card but me. I've not said anything about race," she said later Wednesday.

Last week, Conyers, who is black, told a white Teamsters' union official during a contentious meeting on whether to accept the deal that most of the people who work at Cobo during the annual North American International Auto Show "don't look like me. They look like you."

Pro Tem President Collins, who is recovering from shoulder surgery, was irate during the meeting and talked about how Europeans came into her village "raping her and taking what they want."

At one point, she broke out into the 19th Century hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers."

Collins said no matter what "the battle now is to uphold the integrity of Detroit."

My god. The lunatics have taken over the asylum for real.

Collins said no matter what "the battle now is to uphold the integrity of Detroit." There's a battle that was lost 40 years ago and should never have been fought.

Pro Tem President Collins, who is recovering from shoulder surgery, was irate during the meeting and talked about how Europeans came into her village "raping her and taking what they want."

I know it's useless to apply facts here, but a good 99.9999% of all African slaves were captured by Arabs or other Africans. Before the discovery of quinine in 1850, the average lifespan of a European in interior Africa was two weeks. For virtually all Africans, their first encounter with Europeans was at the slave port.

At one point, she broke out into the 19th Century hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers."

I guess I'm losing my ability to be shocked, because I'm starting to love Detroit anecdotes like this.