More Racial Foolishness From Detroit City Council

What is going on with the Detroit City Council? Every time one of the obstructionist members of the council starts talking … common sense is damaged.

Consider these comments from Barbara-Rose Collins (as quoted by the Detroit Free Press):

She blasted lawmakers in Lansing for creating an authority and Cockrel for going along with the plan.

“I opened my newspaper and every article except maybe one calls us crazy, stupid, monkeys in a zoo.

“European rulers have traditionally taken what they wanted from other people, be they white, be they black or be they brown.

“No one is taking anything,’’ Collins said of a transfer of Cobo Center to a regional authority, as she and some in the audience began singing “Onward Christian Soldiers.

European rulers and Onward Christian Soldiers … please stop. This is beyond ridiculous. Cut out the racial bull. I call on the City Council to do what is in the best interest of the city and the region. Losing sole ownership may not seem attractive, but neither is letting Cobo’s appeal continue to deteriorate and letting the burden of supporting Cobo drag down the city (financially). Cobo is not what it used to be and not what it could be. It will never be what it can be without significant expansion and modernization and the City Council (to my knowledge) has done nothing to show how it can bring something better to the table than this deal.

Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20090305/NEWS01/90305031/City+Council+attorney+to+file+an+injunction+against+the+Cobo+veto

Detroit City Council Hurting Detroit

Here is an excerpt from an editorial published by the Detroit Free Press in regards to the proposed sharing of ownership of Cobo Hall in exchange for expansion funding:

City Council President Monica Conyers and four colleagues who oppose the plan to transfer Cobo’s ownership and operation to a regional authority vow to challenge the veto in court.

Let ‘em sue. The more time Detroiters have to scrutinize the plan, the more likely they are to see through the council’s churlish objections. The more opportunity Cockrel (and his rival Dave Bing, who also supports a regional authority) has to explain the deal’s benefits, the more strongly residents will object to the council squandering their tax dollars on an intramural fight.

I agree. Let them sue and let the obstructionists on the Detroit City Council, using bizarre reasons to oppose this deal, continue to look bad to the general public. Hopefully the people of Detroit get a close look at people representing them on the city council. Detroit needs the suburbs and the suburbs need Detroit. Only the foolish (and perhaps racist) on both sides do not recognize this as being the case.

Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20090305/OPINION01/903050345