Clinton Labor Sec.: ‘Mostly white’ suburban county to blame for Detroit’s woes

Michigan Capitol Confidential via EAG News ^ | September 21, 2014 | Tom Gantert

[Verginius Rufus]

The Democrat candidate has outpolled the Republican candidate in Oakland Co. the last five Presidential elections.

According to Wikipedia, the county was 77% white in 2010 and 13.6% black (about the same as the national averge).

I think the Democrats' long-term goal is to create metro-area governments that can take money from the suburbs to subsidize the central city. Then the only escape will be to live way out in the country.

[Calvin Locke]

Detroit's been corrupt for eons, on overdrive during prohibition, but a renaissance of corruption occurred in the 1960s.

The first black mayor deliberately drove out whites in order to make his voters the overwhelming majority. His primary adviser was a [black] card carrying communist.

[faithhopecharity]

a perfect trifecta!

an idiot, a racist, and a communist
all rolled into one little package!

(may the good Lord save America from this entire gang of bigots, liars, and thieves)

[Regulator]

Yup. One of the scams.

Its implicitly racist - they seem to be saying that Black people can’t succeed unless whites are nearby.

Imagine saying that outloud at an NFL game....

[Iron Munro]

Those inconsiderate greedy, racist whites!

They wouldn’t stay around and let the Gibs-Me-Dats and other bums and moochers strip them of their wealth and resources.

[samtheman]

Detroit’s problems were, “Made In Detroit”.

Actually, "Made in The USA by LBJ"

[Hot Tabasco]

Kwame Kilpatrick and his fellow travelers are responsible for the condition of Detroit.

Kwame was merely a successor to Soulman Young who began the war against whitey....

[Lockbox]

Mr. Reich, you are correct. When a society values hard work and obeying the law, we prosper. When we value the opposite society ends up with Detriot!

Now the problem is Libs keep punishing success and rewarding failure.

So now boys and girls how do we solve the problem of Detroit?

[Carl Vehse]

University of California-Berkeley leftist Professor Robert Reich also overlooked sentient thinking.

[KarlInOhio]

And if the people from Oakland County would move back into Detroit and civilize it one block at a time, the same people would be howling that gentrification is destroying the culture of Detroit.

Personally, I think it is Windsor's and Essex County's fault. Blame Canada!

[dynachrome]

"escape the costs of public goods they would otherwise be forced to share at gun point with poorer and darker Americans,” Reich wrote. “

[vetvetdoug]

There's no such thing as personal responsibility within the black communities, is there? Its always someone else’s fault.

[reefdiver]

Find me a large American city run by liberals that is not a mess.

Democrats throw up large housing project just to warehouse their voters, never doing anything to help them get out of there. Pay them chump change, food stamps, crummy schools and tell them white America Republicans did this to them. And that’s just a fraction of the story of democrats.

[Ouderkirk]

they don’t want to re-educate us...they want us dead.

[Jim Noble]

“wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they would otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans”

And these “public goods” would accomplish what, exactly?

Since whiter Americans started “sharing” with darker Americans in 1965, the condition of those darker Americans has worsened, radically.

[left that other site]

DARKER????

He used the word “darker”.

Oooooooo...Now he’s in trouble!

[Chode]

surprised the little troll didn't accuse them not wanting to share the beating/mugging/rape/robbery and murder with them too... what a POS

[bravo whiskey]

hell it’s a crime to be black and live in the suburbs.