DON'T "FORGET" the MOTOR CITY

The "March" of Decay?

 

Where does blatant "Discrimination" go to operate freely?  Under Woodrow Wilson, it was at the Federal level (he welcomed the Klan and segregated Washington, D.C.).  It has devolved over time to the States (remember George Wallace and "Bull" Connor?).  Today, you can see the rotting hand of decay and discrimination in Cities across our nation.  The discrimination is both economic and racial in many places, like New Orleans and Detroit.

 

The cracks in the wall of government-enforced racial discrimination began with education--Supreme Court (54); and moved to  "lunch counters"; housing; employment -- President Kennedy (63); "civil rights" - Johnson (64); voting (65); to "affirmative action" under Nixon.  The responses of white citizens over those two decades were seen in snippets on television, but the comprehensive white reaction is seen today in the Tea Party and our Rotten Cities. 

 

As whites moved away from their jobs in cities, the jobs moved to follow the whites, the wealthier and better-educated non-whites followed the white flight, and the cities became "hollowed out".  Burdened with services, for which there was no tax base,  cities began their rot and collapse.   Under the twin threats of tax flight and white flight, the Counties, from which the cities spring, and the States, which house the counties came into the cross-hairs.

 

Many of these cities were formerly industrial centers, like Detroit.  Their rot formed the "rust-belt".

Just as Romney and his venture buddies got fabuously rich off the wreckage of our industry, the wealth to be gained from raping our rotting cities could be astounding.  The process would be to collapse the weak cities back into the counties in which they reside.  Should we be checking for new maggots?

 

Stay Vigilant! 

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