Africa Town Follies
Is partisan bickering and the impending nail-biting election getting you down? Kick back and enjoy another episode of the Africa Town Follies! See my previous post for background.
If I may quote myself: “The Detroit City Council wants to declare the dilapidated city ‘Africa Town’ and siphon off more taxpayers’ money for yet more skin color preferences.”
On this week’s show, the screeching squirrels on the council have come to the ridiculously and embarrassingly obvious conclusion that it’s unconstitutional to give away government money based on race, so the plan has been “revised.” Now if only the rest of their legion were this smart. Minority set-aside programs abound everywhere else.
While the man behind the originial, skin color-based Africa Town fiasco, Claud Anderson, may have a few good building-black-businesses ideas under his “Powernomics” plan, he has a nasty tendency to blame others for black people’s ills. And I doubt he’s read the Constitution lately. Fine document. I recommend he pick up a copy.
I’m no economist, but as far as I can tell it is better to build businesses through hard work, ingenuity, initiative and creativity rather than through government aid. Am I wrong? Wouldn’t be the first or last time. ;)
Why are immigrants of all races able to build businesses on nothing or by pooling money together with family and friends, but blacks in Detroit, who’ve lived in an open democracy and capitalist nation their whole lives, can’t seem to make it without race-based this or race-based that?
Liberal ideology is the culprit. Yes, I know! You tell people often enough they can’t be successful without white liberal patronage, this is what happens. I’m simplyfying it, of course, but you get the point.
Read Nolan Finley’s assessment of the plan. The race-based scheme has everybody up in arms, from Hispanics to the Detroit News editorial board.
In my previous post I quoted Kay Everett, a Detroit City Council member who voted against the plan.
I won’t bore you with more of my analysis. You know what I think about this already, and you guys are smart. Talk among yourselves.
By the way. The election is tomorrow! I’ll do a little live-blogging tomorrow night, but you’re all invited to live-comment a lot.