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 ...
true, that does sound like an improvement
It was never really “white flight” so much as it was business flight. Plenty of black businessmen got the hell out too.
My little town’s sole black man says his family lived in Detroit till the riots when his dad sold the bakery and they headed for Jackson where there were still factory jobs.
true, that does sound like an improvement
Hey,Shabazz,how about six numbers for the Mega?
In the mid-80’s, I had a house near mine where 5 people from Detroit livewd. They had graduated high school & left.
They kidded bout the billboard which read: “The last one out, turn ut the lights”.
This was LONG before the ‘sub-prime’ lending problems.
I have often wondered exactly what percentage of what race got mired into the sub-prime lending.
I would love to know the figures.
Incompetent black administrative action detritus have proven unfit to govern and must be trashed.
. I thought they had already burned the city down.””
That was the left-overs from all the annual “Devil’s Night’ activities which went on for years.
They must be almost out of targets by now.
That is the path to communism/authoritarianism. You make things as bad as possible while blaming everything on the “enemy” and the solution is always more government control. People are stupid, if you repeat the lie enough many will believe it.
The Islamists are in the process of tearing down modern economies in North Africa and sending them backward in time three centuries or so. We can expect to see horrible poverty and starvation there in the forthcoming years.”””
I think they are aiming for the 7th century—even further back in time.
Well, the After will look fresher............
To bad that fire in Colorado could not have been in De-Toilet!
That must be a rhetorical question. LOL
I used to peruse some of the “explore Detroit” websites. From what was still in some of the offices and factories, I wouldn’t doubt that some people didn’t even sell their businesses before they fled.
In Egypt there wasn’t much difference ‘tween the 7th and 18th centuries. Truly.
If Islam fostered true scientific endeavors, air conditionaing would have been invented in Arabia. It was not.
“In 1902, the first modern electrical air conditioning unit was invented by Willis Haviland Carrier in Buffalo, New York.” Per wikipedia.
The state shouold respond to Detroit: “Fine. Continue to run your city. But do it without any state money. No more welfare. No more “social services”. And no we will not insure pensions for any Detroit workers.”
I'd agree that a rational discourse is a waste of time, but he is completely rational and logical. He just can't say out loud the reasons he doesn't want the state to come in and run Detroit.
Those reasons are that Detroit has long been run like a third world one party state. There is no check on corruption, and so the funds come in and go anywhere except where they are supposed to. Even in Detroit, or maybe especially in Detroit, there is always plenty of money available to people who are connected. Well meaning outsiders see the poverty, and route even more money into the system, and it continues to dissappear, with no effect on the citizens.
The time has finally come for the state to come in and manage the city, and with that the "the family" in Detroit can't keep a lid on it with state accountants figuring out where the money is going. He is scared to death of this, but he can't say it out loud. What he labels "white supremacy" means "uncorrupted accountant."
The entire Detroit beuracracy, from middle management government jobs on up needs to be dissolved and rebuilt, with no one in the old allowed to join the new city. That won't happen. but the state needs to push as hard as possible. It needs as much tough love as possible.
And its fine if it burns down, the state should call that bluff. But what burns down, stays down.
>>Burning down Detroit would be like burning charcoal. <<
That’s racist. XD
White, as in a dairy tank, is where cream rises to the top.
In Detroit, and other social(ist) septic tanks, it is something else that rises...as Mr. Shabazz proves.
Thanks for the post; ping. HOORAY Charlie LeDuff! (I saw the exchange last night on a local tv station)
Hey, Minister Shabbyass...in case you haven’t noticed Detroit hasn’t recovered in 45 years...the last time you burned it down.
FUMS
BUMP for all of the great Detroiters!
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