My subjective reaction tells me that the culture of Detroit simply will not tolerate Thomas Sowell running the place. Ping to my last. How many times have we seen it demonstrated, that tribal leaders become pirate chiefs, plunderers and raiders of The Other, whose proud boast in self-justification is that, to quote Anthony Quinn's line from Lawrence of Arabia, "I am a river to my people!!" <gunfire, ululation, and general applause>
Remember, it was a law of Rome, back when Rome lived at least partly by high-seas piracy in competition with Antium (Anzio), that adversus alienum semper ius esto, that the court must always find for the rights of the citizen of Rome, against the claims of an alien.
When a meretricious leader pretends to be a "river to his people" he is consciously exploiting tribalism. We see this tribalism and the Travon Martin affair. The Jesse Jacksons of this world have made a good living out of being a river to their people.
There is something ominous beyond the mere corruption within the tribe going on in the Detroits of America. If the African-American tribe in Detroit descends into tribalism, there is no resort for those who are not members of the tribe except to form their own tribe (or to flee, hence "white flight"). We see this explicitly in the prisons. As tribe and tribalism begets tribes, we turn America into Iraq.
The entire system, the Anglo-Saxon system, which is based on comity crashes. There are high intellectuals and low Bolsheviks in our society who yearn for the crash. Judging by his biography, his associations, his appointments, and his affiliations with the New Party, ACORN, Saul Alinsky, and Bill Ayers, Barack Obama belongs to this group.
Tribalism undermines the nation state and, of course, the nationstate, especially the American state, is the principal obstacle to the success of worldwide socialism.
Good post.
