Posted on 03/28/2012 12:42:59 PM PDT by bkopto
Minister Malik Shabazz made headlines when he made this impassioned remark at a Detroit financial review meeting on Monday: "This is white supremacy, and we will fight you. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it down first." Shabazz is upset that Governor Rick Snyder will appoint an emergency manager to run the city of Detroit if it cannot find a way to restructure the budget.
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"Because -- and when I say white supremacy, that's not an assault on my white brothers and sisters -- I'm talking about institutions, power, financiers, bankers, they willfully, skillfully and purposely through subprime lending depopulated and deconstructed Detroit, which leaves us in this dilapidated blight," Shabazz explained.
"Do you agree it's time we did something here?" asked LeDuff.
"We need to do something," Shabazz replied.
"Do you agree it's time to get a reign on our budgetary process here?" LeDuff inquired.
"I agree," said Shabazz.
"Do you agree that the people are suffering because the status quo won't work?" LeDuff further asked.
"This status quo is not working," Shabazz stated.
"So, tell the people what you want them to do," LeDuff said.
"What I want the people to do? I want you to unite -- black, white, blue -- unite, come together, deconstruct this wicked, reprobate-minded society and let's build a new one," Shabazz explained.
"And, don't burn it," said LeDuff.
"Don't burn it down," Shabazz said. "Don't burn the city, but burn evil and injustice and white supremacy, not white people."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdetroit.com ...
That which survives will increase in value...
“Wow, this place looks great!”
And, to re-state what someone stole from me, that I might have stole from someone else to start with -
if they burn down detroit, they might do HUNDREDS of dollars in damages!
“...we will burn it down first.”....As soon as they find some buildings that haven’t already been torched................
I was in Detroit in the late 60's when the MLK riots took place and we had one of our people shot to death.
This was when Nixon rolled over and the brothers saw that force would work.
The racists have been beating that drum for 40+ years.
Burning down Detroit would be like burning charcoal.
Don’t these guys realize that burning down Detroit would cause billions of dollars in improvement?
Can it wait until after the MLB season first? The Tigers are expected to be contenders.
Billy Joel, “We didn’t start the fire”
You’ve heard of “urban renewal?” Well, Detroit is undergoing “rural renewal.”
” “What I want the people to do? I want you to unite — black, white, blue — unite, come together, deconstruct this wicked, reprobate-minded society and let’s build a new one,” Shabazz explained.”
reprobate-minded ?
Like so many community organizers, Mr. Shabazz has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
WHERE in Detroit? It's a big city......
No Shabazz... You do not have white flight out of "Detwaa" or institutional "whatever", you have Black Flight, go to a Charter School in the Burbs and see how many of your former citizens depopulated "Detwaa" because it was Corrupt and Dysfunctional, especially the School System. As a former restaurateur said on a WJR quasi exit interview with Paul W. Smith noted, Detroit had a problem with colors, not black or white, they didn't understand the color green.
BTW, my public service gnome in the city told me of this threat weeks ago, it has been on the QT, it is now in the public domain so to speak. Said gnome stands by his theory that Mayor Bing will be named at the Emergency Manager or whatever they are calling it today. That is the Ultimate Checkmate...
Yeah, where is the “white supremacy” Mr Shabazzam wants to burn down? The banks? The hospitals? Starbucks?
Actually, that’s probably the best thing that could happen to Detroit!
I was too...on a layover from Utah. I never left the airport. Didn't dare.
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