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Salon: Detroit is Bankrupt Because Racists Like Sean Hannity Hate Motown Music
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Posted on 08/02/2013 6:41:08 PM PDT by chessplayer

Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has fingered the main culprits behind Detroit’s bankruptcy. According to him, it’s none other than Fox News host Sean Hannity and all his fellow racist conservatives who were threatened by Smokey Robinson.

In his July 27 screed for Salon headlined “Why the Right Hates Detroit” O’Hehir claimed the fall of big cities like Detroit and New Orleans had less to do with longtime Democratic rule and more to do with the right’s desire, as seen in the “coded racism of Sean Hannity” to punish the cities that spawned “the worldwide revolution symbolized by hot jazz, Smokey Robinson dancin’ to keep from cryin’ and Eminem trading verses with Rihanna.”

The following is the relevant excerpt from the July 27 Salon article:

Is it pure coincidence that these two landmark cities, known around the world as fountainheads of the most vibrant and creative aspects of American culture, have become our two direst examples of urban failure and collapse? If so, it’s an awfully strange one.

I’m tempted to propose a conspiracy theory: As centers of African-American cultural and political power and engines of a worldwide multiracial pop culture that was egalitarian, hedonistic and anti-authoritarian, these cities posed a psychic threat to the most reactionary and racist strains in American life. I mean the strain represented by Tom Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby” (imagine what he’d have to say about New Orleans jazz) or by the slightly more coded racism of Sean Hannity today. As payback for the worldwide revolution symbolized by hot jazz, Smokey Robinson dancin’ to keep from cryin’ and Eminem trading verses with Rihanna, New Orleans and Detroit had to be punished. Specifically, they had to be isolated, impoverished and almost literally destroyed, so they could be held up as examples of what happens when black people are allowed to govern themselves.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: chapter9; detroit; michigan; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rosemaryaquillina
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To: chessplayer
HEY IDIOT!!!! Rush'es bumper rotation is loaded with Motown, R&B and FUNK.

Now just who has more influence Rush or Sean????

61 posted on 08/02/2013 11:26:10 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: chessplayer

Good grief. What complete and utter nonsense. Detroit and to some extent every other municipality run by DemocRats have been run into the ground by the ‘enlightened’ liberal economic philosophies embraced by these hellholes. Those ‘philosophies’ are best described as ‘punish the producers and reward the lazy and worthless’. This ensures the producers of society will abandon those cities, leaving said cities to collapse under the weight of the bloated social programs no longer supported by the blood money extorted from the citizenry with a work ethic and still gainfully employed.

Detroit was destroyed from within, not by outside forces.


62 posted on 08/03/2013 12:02:07 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: GenXteacher

Papa was a rolling stone
where ever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died All he left us was ALONE


63 posted on 08/03/2013 12:05:02 AM PDT by funfan
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To: funfan
The answer to crap like this is, rolling your eyes and complete dismissal.


and no.. not real sure if thats a guy or girl

64 posted on 08/03/2013 12:06:58 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: chessplayer
Andrew O'Hehir

This article makes you look really STUPID


65 posted on 08/03/2013 12:10:27 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: chessplayer; All

Of course, the Black Racists will refuse to admit, Motown left Detroit back in 1972, when Berry Gordy moved it to LA

Even Berry Gordy realized 4 decades earlier Detroit was doomed


66 posted on 08/03/2013 1:35:58 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Al Green
Alice Cooper
Anita Baker
Aretha Franklin
Barbara Lewis
Big Sean
Bob Seger
Brenda Holloway
Brownsville Station
The Capitols
Chairmen of the Board
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
The Contours
Dan Schafer
Death
Del Shannon
Della Reese
Dennis Coffey
Destroy All Monsters
The Detroit Emeralds
Diana Ross
Dice (rapper)
The Dells
The Dramatics
Edwin Starr
Eminem
The Flaming Embers
The Four Tops

Freda Payne
Frijid Pink
The Frost
Funkadelic
Gino Washington
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Glenn Frey
Grand Funk Railroad
Halloween
Iggy Pop
Insane Clown Posse
J Dilla
Jack Scott
Jackie Wilson
Jimmy Ruffin
John Lee Hooker
Junior Walker & The All Stars
Kid Rock
The Knack
Lamont Dozier
The Look
Madonna
Marshall Crenshaw
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
The Marvelettes
Marvin Gaye
Mary Wells
MC5
Mike Posner
The Miracles
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Only a Mother
The Originals
The Parliaments

Phil Ochs
The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle
Question Mark & the Mysterians
Ralston Bowles
The Rationals
Rare Earth
Ray Parker Jr.
The Rockets
Rodriguez
The Romantics
Shaun Murphy
Slum Village
Smokey Robinson
The Spinners
SRC
Stevie Wonder
The Stooges
The Supremes
Suzi Quatro
The Temptations
Teegarden & Van Winkle
Ted Nugent
Theo Parrish
Tommy James & The Shondells
Uncle Kracker
Unrelated Segments
The Von Bondies
Was (Not Was)
The White Stripes
Wilson Pickett
The Woolies


67 posted on 08/03/2013 4:39:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: chessplayer

Liberalism is a mental disease.


68 posted on 08/03/2013 5:32:52 AM PDT by mort56
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To: Graybeard58

More black stupidity.


69 posted on 08/03/2013 5:42:06 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Graybeard58

More black stupidity.


70 posted on 08/03/2013 5:42:27 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: doc1019
They know Hannity so well that they know his taste in music?

Vannity makes no secret of his love of country music.

71 posted on 08/03/2013 5:43:07 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: chessplayer

These people are stark, staring Pelosi.


72 posted on 08/03/2013 5:45:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: kcvl

Andrew O’Hehir - film critic ,........ and queer, swivel-eyed loon.


73 posted on 08/03/2013 6:58:26 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: chessplayer
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74 posted on 08/03/2013 7:29:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Fresh Wind

Doesn’t mean he hates Motown music.


75 posted on 08/03/2013 8:11:28 AM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: chessplayer

Oh good grief!!


76 posted on 08/03/2013 8:52:47 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: doc1019

Motown Music is gone because the style died in the 70s. Nobody is producing Motown style music today.


77 posted on 08/03/2013 6:49:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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