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MSNBC’s Michael Eric Dyson blames racism for Detroit bankruptcy
The Washington Times ^ | July 22, 2013 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 07/22/2013 10:24:15 PM PDT by walford

“Of course, it’s an 85 percent black city,” Mr. Dyson replied. “It’s been perceived as a colony of black people who are ringed by suburban white areas that are now going into the city to plunder it. The perception is that there is a massive takeover of resources and materials and properties, basically being occupied.”

“We have to acknowledge that part of this has to be the racial animus that has characterized that city for the last 50-some-odd years,” he continued. “The service industries hemorrhaged jobs in the inner city, depleted that city of its economic infrastructure and left it to its own fate.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: chapter9; demagoguery; detroit; michigan; racism; rosemaryaquillina
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To: cloudmountain

> “Of course, it’s an 85 percent black city,” Mr. Dyson replied. “It’s been perceived as a colony of black people who are ringed by suburban white areas that are now going into the city to plunder it. The perception is that there is a massive takeover of resources and materials and properties, basically being occupied.”

BS; its ringed by surburban white areas because you ran them out with high crime and the destruction of your neighborhoods because its easier to get a nice set of wheels to hunt for booty calls than it is to keep your homes maintained. If we’re going to get real about it, lets get real instead of lyingabout it to make yourself look good and pry more money from whitey’s fingers.


21 posted on 07/22/2013 11:00:05 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Trod Upon

> It’s getting to the point that I half expect black infants to start pointing their fingers at the nearest white kid whenever they load their own diapers.

Good thing I want drinking anything when I read that...lol


22 posted on 07/22/2013 11:01:22 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: mylife

Yep.


23 posted on 07/22/2013 11:01:52 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds are diseased.)
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To: walford

24 posted on 07/22/2013 11:32:31 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: walford

Using round numbers:

In 1960 there was 1,182,000 whites and there were 442,000 blacks.

In 2010 There was 77,000 whites to 590,000 blacks.

And 47% of them can’t read.

That should explain everything anyone wants to know. Kennedy tried to bring them up....LBJ tried to bring theim up, GW Bush tried to make sure no child was left behind. We can show you lots of them if you’d really care to see it. Billy Clinton tried and he failed. Now we’ve got a black president and all wants to do is stir shit up.

Here are the stats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit


25 posted on 07/22/2013 11:33:17 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: walford

Keep it up, and even the White Liberals will grow tired of this nonsense...


26 posted on 07/22/2013 11:44:59 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: j. earl carter
I think racism may be the culprit here.

Long ago, in NE Portland, Oregon I lived in the same house as my landlord and his girlfriend. He was a young white guy, not much money. He was trying to make a living by buying one cheap house after another, fixing it up, and selling it. He bought what he considered to be a bargain house in the nearby black community. He worked on it for a couple of months. When he arrived one morning, his house had been burned to the ground. It was definitely arson, and he had little doubt of the motive. He was a white man in a black neighborhood.

I don't know if he ever recovered financially.

What sane white person would want to invest in such a community?

I don't think you will ever see the media covering those sorts of stories.

No. Stories like ours don't fit the left's template. The white guy must be the victimizer, the black must be the victim, or the event never happened.

27 posted on 07/22/2013 11:47:03 PM PDT by TChad
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To: walford

Mmmm K.

Sohhhh yer gonna need some more title vii handouts ???


28 posted on 07/22/2013 11:51:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: walford

So whites run things even when we’re only 15% of the population? Good to know. (Sounds like the Arab world blaming everything on Israel.)


29 posted on 07/22/2013 11:51:57 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Liberty Valance

Alinsky not Alinski.

They’ve been stunning successful, haven’t they? And we don’t seem to be able to come up with a countering strategy or tactics.


30 posted on 07/23/2013 12:52:38 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000
Yep. Alinsky it is ... Buddy Emmons - Pachelbel Canon In D Major
31 posted on 07/23/2013 1:02:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: expat1000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XyTpENuoCI
Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good


32 posted on 07/23/2013 1:11:08 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Bullish

both are pretty fake-looking


33 posted on 07/23/2013 1:26:56 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: mylife

“Talk about delusional.”

No kidding! His logic is so convoluted I can’t really figure out much of anything he says except that “ Whitey has been screwing all those hard-working Black folks in Detroit for 50 years and now he’s decided to administer the final Coupe de Grace! Translated= Whatever it is, it’s all Whitey’s fault.


34 posted on 07/23/2013 1:29:46 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Plummz

Whoever made that graphic should be doing something else...


35 posted on 07/23/2013 2:25:22 AM PDT by mcmuffin (Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
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To: expat1000
Sadly, it's exponentially easier when they have the media behind them. Facts and truth just don't matter to 'journalists' these days, and I say this as a political moderate . The behavior of the media shocks me every day.
36 posted on 07/23/2013 2:26:19 AM PDT by missycocopuffs
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To: mcmuffin

Woud that they were...


37 posted on 07/23/2013 2:37:39 AM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: j. earl carter

‘White flight’ was a major part of Detroit’s downfall.
Anyone with enough money to escape, left Detroit.


38 posted on 07/23/2013 2:38:23 AM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: Plummz

THAT needs to be on EVERY thread!!


39 posted on 07/23/2013 3:07:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Yes racism has plenty do do with Detroit's problems. Like when Monica Conyers announced that white contractors need not apply because the city wouldn't be hiring any contractors that "don't look like us".

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40 posted on 07/23/2013 3:12:06 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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