What you said made me think or how so many State level democrat pols really do think that because nobama can get away with baldface lies, so can they.
Trouble is nobama gets RACIST free-ride and there is no way these lesser dems can get the same reparations break.
The City of Detroit is under emergency financial management. The city council has been dead set against it and we’ve been seeing organized protests crying about “democracy” and “letting the people of Detroit decide”, etc. Our Governer Snyder is a white guy and a “big business Republican” (formerly with Gateway Computers)...
SO, the compromise seems to have been that the Emergency Financial Manager must be an African-American and I think the only way City Council (mostly blacks) would even consider an EFM was if Snyder could find them a black person to “work with them” If not, there wouldn’t have been any sort of deal.
They had Jesse Jackson come to the city, Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panthers AND Sharpton all come to oppose Snyder and in my opinion, forced him to assign a black person to the EMF post in Detroit.
Oh, yeah...The Mayor of Detroit is Dave Bing, former Detroit Piston and minority business owner (Bing Steel, etc), himself an African-American who has been embattled by City Council all along. It might be worth mentioning that the President of Detorit’s city council is an openly gay, black man who prior to his winning that position was a local news reporter.
On top of all that, the former Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick was just convicted of federal racketeering charges, among other things, along with his father and lifelong pal, Bobby Ferguson. All are in jail awaiting sentencing but even so, it’s obvious that KK could win re-election if only he was able to run for mayor again. And it’s not so much that they think everyone else is stupid, they just don’t care!