Livonia Says No To Teen Takeover

Summer is here, and the hoodrats are out and about,trying their best to ruin the fun for law abiding citizens.

A bunch of "Teens " decided to put on Facebook a pronouncement that they would be taking over Livonia's Spree fair.

 

The City of Livonia PD and The City have stated clearly that it is not going to happen.

The Detroit News:  Livonia Spree tries fee, rule to limit crowds. Takeover threat blasted

 The Detroit Free Press: Livonia police warn of zero tolerance at Spree ahead of teen takeover

"Teens" like these are why we can't have nice things.

This area has already lost the Saint Mary's Polish Country Fair (after it lasted for 50 years) due to "Teens" running wild and causing problems, before these actions were fashionably and disarmingly called a Teen Takeover.

Good on the Livonia and the Livonia PD for proactively not putting up with a "teen takeover" threat. 

The "Teens" Of Summer

Summer is here, and the media,  obfuscating as usual,  describes the latest round of disorderly issues in Blue State Cities to be created by"Teens" just happening to be out and about:

The New York Post: ‘Teen takeover’ descends into wild brawl inside DC Chipotle — as feds promise to charge ignorant parents 

The Detroit News: Teen takeover in Detroit results in brawls, shooting. Sheffield responds

The choice of words by the media is typical in that it is technically accurate yet does not nearly accurately describe the perpetrators of the disorder. These deliberate word choices are interesting as an apt demonstration in how the media chooses to obfuscate the facts. 

Apparently, Detroit Mayor Sheffield's response to the "teen takeover" is to re-establish midnight basketball and other activities to give the "Teens" something to do other than blocking the streets, starting brawls, and assaulting people - instead of severely cracking down on the behavior and heavily prosecuting the miscreants to deter such behavior.  That should work just swimmingly.  

The Latest Media Euphemism

Generally, when the media fails to tell you the race or show you the face of the perpetrator of a  crime in the Detroit Metro area, you can generally guess, and guess correctly due to that failure.

The latest media euphemism to distract attention: "Suburban Men": 

The Detroit News: Suburban men, two ex-postal workers plead in $63 million stolen check scheme

Suburban men makes you think of Hank Hill from King of the Hill, amirite?

In this case it's "Suburban Men" going by the handles of:  DaQuan Foreman, 32, of Eastpointe and Jaiswan Williams, 32, of Rochester Hills.

Technically true that they are from the suburbs, but that's hardly the salient or newsworthy feature here. 

Their more urban confederates in crime are Crystal Jenkins and Vanessa Hargrove - both employees of the Post Office who stole the checks from the mail - Sixty-three million dollars worth of them.

After stealing the checks they gave them to suburbanite confederates in crime DaQuan and Jaiswan to sell off on the black -- oh, sorry -- suburban -- market.

Details, Details, Details

A stabbing on the University of Michigan Campus led to the following description of the attacker in the Detroit Free Press:

The alert, sent at 6:22 p.m., asked people to avoid the area of the Zina Pitcher and Catherine Street. A follow up alert, sent at 7:11 p.m., identified a suspect as a heavyset male wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, and asked anyone who sees him to call 911. 

The Detroit Free Press:  Suspect arrested after stabbing causes emergency alert on University of Michigan campus

Funny how this news article giving the description of the alert failed to mention a rather salient, useful, and kinda distinctive identifying feature. 

I mean, there's a wide range of heavyset males wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, even in Ann Arbor.

Oh yeah, that identifying feature, courtesy of the helpful campus alert.

You'd think that additional descriptor would be helpful in catching the attacker, but the mainstream media does not.

Anyhoo, the suspect is now thankfully under arrest and in custody. 

Well he is for now, at least until Washtenaw County's progressive prosecutor's focus on racial equity and progressive justice lets him out the revolving door. 

Dog Bites Man

Or: You Really Don't Hate The Media Enough.

The murder of Iryna Zarutska occurred on August 22 and its been only on mainly conservative sites where it has been getting coverage as the video of the murder was leaked until just now. 

The dam finally broke today and a slew of mainstream sites are finally covering it weeks later (note the datestamps of times of the stories in the Google search - mainly coming out today and indeed within hours before this post) with much of the coverage being about the accusation that the lack of coverage has been  politicized by MAGA types (yes, really) as the story spread while leftist and mainstream media sources blithely failed to cover it at all. 

So, why did the media not cover a story of a mentally-ill man killing an innocent woman?

Well, of course there's the racial angle, Black man killing White female is double-plus-ungood to mention, especially as there's no domestic violence angle to play here where you can blame western patriarchal family structures.

After all, Black on White violence is indeed Dog-Bites-Man to the mainstream media and statistically is the norm compared to White on Black violence.

It's a further issue not worthy of coverage as it goes directly against the left's soft on crime initiatives including no cash bail and releasing people on the happy belief criminals and mentally ill criminals at that, will show up in court on their own after being charged with violent crimes. he had been arrested and released 13 14 times prior to the murder, with the most recent release just before it took place with zero bail to reappear on his latest charge.

This also took place on mass transit in a Democrat controlled city.  Democrats love their mass transit and prefer to gloss over the crime that occurs on it.  And, it's in a Democrat city with soft on crime policies - so much so that the mayor in talking about the crime was more concerned and gave more time to the fact that the perpetrator had been homeless and the bromides of root causes than the fate of the victim.  

On top of that, mentally ill people attacking innocents in public is commonplace,  par for the course, and not to be remarked upon by the media progressives. After all, they have pushed for deinstitutionalization and hold the charming belief that the mentally ill just see the world differently from the rest of us.

Indeed, they do. 

Quite simply, unless the mentally ill person uses a gun and shoots up a school or a crowd so the media and progressives can use it to promote gun bans, they're simply not interested.

So, this story had all the reasons why the mainstream media didn't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole until they were forced to do so:  

An attractive and wholly innocent white victim, who was a refugee no less; a Black perpetrator who was mentally ill and had a violent criminal record a mile long who was let out to roam free again and again until he finally killed someone; and it taking place on public transit.

No wonder the media didn't want to talk about it until they were forced to do so. 

Oh Stewardess! I Speak Jive.

The Detroit Free Press: Many Black Americans speak African American English. But is it embraced in schools?

Ebonics is getting a makeover in public schools to be sold as a more palatable sounding "African American English".

 The current crop progressive DEI educators are trying to frame it as "just another way of speaking" and that it is not slang but its own language.  They tried the same approach when calling it Ebonics and they couldn't sell it, now they've repackaged the same progressive garbage as African American English.

Of course, they blame the lack of pandering to "African American English" as a reason why students using "African American English" have literacy issues. The current desire is that instead of schools actually teaching them to read and communicate  effectively, it is more important to value their "identities and experiences".

Maybe they should spend more time teaching kids how to read and communicate effectively, after all, that might help with illiteracy now wouldn't it?

The explanation of the post title for those who haven't seen the movie Airplane! (and if you haven't you owe it to yourself to go watch it):

Court: Election Redistricting To Favor Dems Has Racial Consequences

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission , which just happened to redraw districts that ended up (quelle surprise) being heavily in favor of Democrats, drew some ire as the resulting districts diluted Blacks into multiple districts.  This dilution prevented Blacks from being assured of having a lock on Blacks as representatives in some districts that previously were assured of having a Black representative as a lock.

The Detroit Free Press: Court orders metro Detroit legislative maps redrawn

Now, the cracking and redistricting they are complaining about wasn't actually done to "prevent Black people from voting for the candidates of their choice"  it was about ensuring Democrats all won those seats. 

Putting Black-majority areas with their voters that vote 90%+ Democrat into other previously less partisan district ensured that result, even as it made Blacks not a majority in each of these districts. This meant in the Dem primaries a Black candidate wasn't assured of winning. Such lack of a racial lock is apparently bad. In short in their pursuit of a lock for the Dems (for noble, non-partisan reasons, of course), the Commission ticked off a key Dem constituency.

 Note, the results of the un-packing being complained about in the article:

The panel ordered the commission to redraw the following districts:

• House District 1, currently represented by state Rep. Tyrone Carter, D-Detroit.
• House District 7, currently represented by state Rep. Helena Scott, D-Detroit.
• House District 8, currently represented by state Rep. Mike McFall, D-Hazel Park.
• House District 10, currently represented by state Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit.
• House District 11, currently represented by state Rep. Veronica Paiz, D-Harper Woods.
• House District 12, currently represented by state Rep. Kimberly Edwards, D-Eastpointe.
• House District 14, currently represented by state Rep. Donavan McKinney, D-Detroit.
• Senate District 1, currently represented by state Sen. Erika Geiss, D-Detroit.
• Senate District 3, currently represented by state Sen. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit.
• Senate District 6, currently represented by state Sen. Mary Cavanagh, D-Redford Township.
• Senate District 8, currently represented by state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak.
• State Senate District 10, currently represented by state Sen. Paul Wojno, D-Warren.
• State Senate District 11, currently represented by state Sen. Veronica Klinefelt, D-Eastpointe.

See how there's not a single, solitary R in that list?   

This is the result of  the creation of solid D-majorities in those districts by filtering Blacks into each to create solid D-safe districts instead of keeping solidly Black districts.

In short, the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission screwed up by not simply coming out and stating the truth - this wasn't racially motivated, it was instead very politically motivated to create Democrat-safe districts, which in doing so got rid of Black majority districts to spread that solid D-voting bloc around.

In short, it was gerrymandering of the very sort they bemoaned happening before, but since it helped the Ds, so it was the noble kind of gerrymander.

It's likely the redrawing will again create districts that favor Blacks by race (I had thought that doing things based on race was bad, but you know apparently locking things up for certain races is just ducky). 

It may even create a district where Republicans have at least a shot at winning, and my current gerrymandered (but for the best of intentions, right?) district which is in the list ordered to be redrawn, may even stop being completely overwhelmed by Detroit voters.  

One can hope for that anyways.

Ann Arbor Decides Broken Windows Are No Problem

Remember the Broken Windows Theory of crime prevention? In short, the idea is that allowing low-level crimes and signs of disorder encourages more and more serious crime.  So enforcing the law and enforcing low-level infractions and smacking criminals doing low-level offenses helps deter more major crimes from occurring.

The theory worked.

The City of Ann Arbor doesn't like this theory.  Per their beliefs, stopping criminals committing low-level crimes is apparently racist.

The Detroit Free Press: Ann Arbor adopts ban on select traffic stops to help build trust with minority population

Ann Arbor City Council unanimously approved an ordinance banning certain traffic stops, in an effort to build trust with the city's minority population.

Under the new law, police officers can no longer pull over drivers for equipment violations like tinted windows, a chipped windshield or loud exhaust.

So now, these low-level violations of the law will be ignored in Ann Arbor, allegedly because minorities are more likely to have cars with tinted windows, a chipped windshield or loud exhaust.

Citing an extensive body of research, the ordinance points to the disparate outcomes of traffic stops that Black, Indigenous and people of color experience — making interactions with police, even for minor infractions, laced with trauma.

The risks and trauma associated with traffic stops for Black people and people of color outweigh any potential safety benefits, according to the Urban Institute, and they instead create a tension between community members and those sworn to protect. Traffic stops neither increase trust in police or people's perceived sense of safety among their neighbors.

We will note that traffic stops, for quite valid reasons, such as these equipment violations, are excellent starting points to catch criminals traveling back and forth as they commit crimes  -- and thus they actually lower the victimization of Black, Indigenous and people of color by criminals.

We'll also note if you have trauma from being in a traffic stop, you're either getting it as a result of resisting arrest, which is on you, no matter what color you are, or you simply lack the emotional resilience to be driving a 4,000 plus pound vehicle on the road.

But the City of Ann Arbor has now decreed that they will ignore minor crimes in the name of social justice and progressiveness.  Expect Ann Arbor to see a rise in broken windows as a result, and a rise in crime - which I am sure they will be completely surprised about as a result.

When Manufactured Concern Over Race Trumps School Safety

This Detroit Free Press article starts off rather normally:Parent of student expelled from Detroit public schools for firearm offense asks to return

A student in Detroit was expelled for bringing a gun in his backpack into his school.

Most if not all students know by now that you're not supposed to do that.

His parents want him returned to school. 

The article helpfully notes that out of 50,000 Detroit public school students all of 11 were expelled in the 2021-2022 year. Sounds rather normal with less than a quarter of a percent of students being expelled for bad behavior.

So far, pretty reasonable.

Then the article goes off the rails.

Black students were disproportionately expelled statewide, making up 31% of the state's total expulsions, while making up about 18% of the student population as a whole. White students made up about 49% of the state's total expulsions, while constituting about 64% of the student population as a whole. School suspension and discipline data has long shown inequities between the ways Black students are disciplined compared with white students.

Is the article suggesting a white student that smuggled a gun into Detroit Public Schools, or indeed any other public school statewide these days, would not be expelled?  Any evidence for such an assertion, at all? If not, and I bet there is not, then why bring this up in the article? Perhaps the Freep needed to meet a quota for DEI content.

We may also want to note the bad use of statistics in declaring that Black students are being "disproportionately" expelled and announcing of inequity.  

In fact this analysis makes a critical error:  They're comparing the wrong populations to arrive at their conclusion of racial inequity and iniquity.  

They should be comparing expelled students not from the population as a whole but rather compare the expelled students from the miscreant population as whole. 

Indeed 31% of the expelled population being Black actually fits rather well with the overall population of criminals who happen to be Black, as Blacks in this country overall are statistically responsible for 50% of violent crime overall, even being 13% of the overall population. This fact makes people rather uncomfortable.

If anything, the stats would suggest school officials are under-expelling Black student miscreants by about 38%  (from 50% to 31% is a 38% decrease) if it was normed to Black criminality in the population as a whole.

Or, it may instead hopefully and happily suggest that Black students are less likely than the overall Black population as a whole to commit violent offenses on school grounds that may meet the threshold for expulsion.

This is the problem when you focus solely on statistics, neh?

Either way, the statistics do not actually suggest an inequity based on race in school discipline, and may instead suggest Black students in Michigan are the recipient of leniency in their favor in school discipline matters. 

Or, you know, we could instead maybe focus on addressing student's bad behavior on a case-by-case and individual basis, and applying appropriate punishments for bad actions, such as smuggling a gun into school results in a student's expulsion, rather than trying to make a racial argument out of it.

Detroit Reparations: Good Graft If You Can Get It

 The Detroit News:  Detroit Reparations Task Force gets to work: 'We are stewards of this process'

 So, Detroit is now spending $350,000 for a committee to begin exploring reparations for Black residents of Detroit. That $350,000 could surely be put to better use.

Reparations will be for slavery, even as Michigan was not a slave state (at least not since the time of the French and there seems to be no demand being made to France to cough up) and not a single surviving slave nor slaveholder lives in this state today.  

But "reparations" will also be for a litany of other grievances:

the razing of the Black Bottom neighborhood to build a freeway , the millions of dollars in over-assessments in property taxes, the thousands of homes lost to foreclosures, and the deep personal injustice their families endured and rose above.

Let's note that at the time Black Bottom was in decline, had a multi-ethnic population and the freeway needed to be put somewhere - and notice how no reparations are being proposed for the demolition of Poletown and Democrat and Black Mayor Coleman Young's displacing of Americans of Polish descent to make way for an automotive factory.  Funny, that.

So let's recap.  What party has exclusively held the mayor-ship in Detroit since 1962?  I'll give you one guess, and the answer is not Republicans.

In addition, for just about the last 50 years, from the 1974-2013, the mayors of Detroit have been uniformly Black, as has the majority of the city council.

So then, in short, this is reparations for acts of "racism" committed by Black Democrats upon Black Detroiters - namely the "over-assessments in property taxes, the thousands of homes lost to foreclosures, and the deep personal injustice their families endured and rose above" not to mention the corruption and decline under that leadership.  The non-Black Detroiters who have suffered along with them from these crappy policies apparently are counting for nought in this reparations drive.

Reparations in Detroit is quite simply a bad joke.   I'm sure the punchline will be taxes on businesses or a demand for the region or the state to hand over money yet again.

It's Hard To Be Intersectional

When one part of your intersection is busy bashing another part over the head, rather than joining hands and singing kumbaya, now isn't it?

This post inspired by Earth Bound Misfit's post and comments to same, re the mass killings of Asians in the shooting in California by what almost immediately turned out to be an Asian killer narrative, and her stated relief that it wasn't a Trump supporter that did it.

The left doth love its intersectionality and wants to pull Asians into the fold, now cutely lumping them all together and naming them the "AAPI" - Asian American and Pacific Islander community.  

Of course the many different Asian cultures likely don't want to be lumped together like thus, but hey nobody asked them, right?

But, in the lovely world of intersectional love, and its battle against the patriarchy and white supremacy, there's a little problem and indeed a dirty little secret.

African Americans tend to be the largest source, of physical violence against Asians, well out of proportion to their demographics. 

For example, in San Francisco, 85% of physical violence against Asian Americans is form African Americans.  Now, they try to explain this inconvenient fact away by claiming  that when Blacks attack Asians claim it is due to white supremacy, (yes, really) but that is kinda hard for anyone but the most progressive with blinders on to reject the evidence before their eyes and instead rely on CRT to avoid reality.

San Francisco is indeed not alone:  VOA: Anti-Asian Hate Crime Crosses Racial and Ethnic Lines  

The big problem of course is statisticians in their studies on hate crimes and their desire to show it is a "white supremacy" problem are not breaking out the difference between a white idiot saying"kung flu" to an Asian, and a Black idiot beating them over the head.

These are both not acceptable things, but physical violence is a whole other unacceptable and more dangerous level and degree of difference than merely being a jerk, is it not? 

 So of course, most studies lump them in as one and the same as an amorphous "hate crime" to preserve the narrative.

As one might expect, when you count those acts equally as hate crimes, you get a preferred result as African Americans make up 13% of the population, and White make up around 60%, so in terms of sheer numbers and if you count idiots saying nasty words as equal with asshats bashing people, then of course you will get more whites did bad things by sheer numbers. 

Because the intersecitonality narrative must be maintained at all times.

As noted in Commentary, what the narrative the left wants (and indeed needs) to believe about these crimes simply isn't true: Crime Against Asians Isn’t Due to White Supremacy.

Democrat Justice Bernstein Sayeth The Quiet Part Out Loud

Democrat Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein ruffled a few progressive feathers recently.

He dared ask if it was it really a wise choice for his fellow Supreme Court justice to hire as a law clerk an ex-felon who had gone to prison for 14 years for armed robbery and shooting at police officers?

I mean, there is a large  pool of Democrat Law Clerk candidates.  Indeed there  are countless many smart and qualified candidates (regardless of my not agreeing with their politics), for a very competitive spot.

So, Justice Kyra Bolden (the first Black Woman Michigan Supreme Court Justice) decided to take on a Defund the Police theme, play the race card, make some waves, and hire someone whose claim to fame was taking shots at cops?  

Bernstein rightly pointed out that this was a political stunt and a rather inane hiring decision and it didn't look good for the Court.

After all was that hire with that kind of baggage really the best and brightest the progressives have in the law clerk department?  Answer - obviously not.

The Left, of course, was up in arms over one of its Democrat Supreme Court justices pointing out the inanity of the hiring and doing a reality check.  So much so that Justice Bernstein had to publicly apologize for "interfering:" in Justice Bolden's hiring decisions.

The Detroit News: Justice Bernstein issues apology over criticisms of fellow justice, clerk

Now of course the left is calling Justice Bernstein's statement and criticism of Justice Bolden's decision "an attack on Black women", for verily one may not criticize the bad decision of a member of a protected class, neh?

So, good for Justice Bernstein, even as an anti-gun Democrat, having the courage to point out reality and showing at least some common sense.

Also, we now have a new leftist euphemism on the books:  convicts released from prison are now called "returning citizens".

It's Not Due To Racism, it's Due To Incompetence, Criminality, And Ignorance

 The Detroit Free Press: Racial disparity in nonviolent gun arrests leads advocates to call for dropping charges

The news article could alternatively be called:

 Wayne County Clerk Doesn't Do It's Job, Minorities Hardest Hit 

The facts are that  Detroit is over 80% Black, so it's not surprising that 97% of those charged are indeed mainly Blacks that will get hit for carrying concealed without a permit.  

Add the fact that there's a vibrant criminal class that happens to be disproportionately Black in Detroit that is knowingly flouting the law and carrying illegally to commit crimes and the percentages are not surprising, nor explainable by simply pulling the race card.

Understand, the Prosecutor in Detroit is Black, the vast majority of the assistant prosecutors are Black, The Wayne County Sheriff is Black, and the Detroit Police Chief is Black.  The majority of the Detroit government is Black. 

Blaming this on race and Playing the race card against them is a fool's errand.

Of course, had Wayne County actually processed CPL applications in any timely fashion it would have alleviated a lot of these charges upon the otherwise law-abiding as the law-abiding people would have their CPLs.  Some people I know have been charged in Detroit due to expired CPLs, because again because the Clerk is not doing her job. The Wayne County Clerk continues the delays to this day.

Some of the charges are also unfortunately due to ignorance and people not knowing the law. 

Michigan has open carry, and open carry without any permit is lawful. But, having a loaded pistol in a vehicle, even if it is visible,  is not open carrying but is essentially considered to be concealed and thus requiring a CPL.  People who don't know better, but really should, doth make this mistake a lot.

In short the problem is very real, and a mix of actual criminals getting caught and the innocent swept up with them due to carrying illegally through ignorance, but racism has damn well nothing to do with it.

Another Attack That Will Soon Be Buried

As in the case of the BLM supporter Darrell Brooks in Waukesha Wisconsin who killed six so far and whose culpability is being quickly buried and downplayed by the media, there was a recent incident in Kalamazoo that's about to get similar treatment.

The Detroit News: Police fatally shoot man who wounded 3 bus passengers in SW Michigan

The Detroit Free Press:  At least 3 hurt, gunman wounded in Kalamazoo bus station shooting

You'll note neither story fails to mention a salient fact about the attacker and the motive remains unclear.  Funny that.

If You’re Going To Run A False-Flag Op, At Least Put Some Effort Into It

You've likely heard the curious tale of some folks dressed up as white-supremacist Trump supporters, complete with Tiki Torches and MAGA hats showing up to claim their support for the Youngkin gubernatorial campaign in Virginia.

Apparently finding five actual white supremacists in Virginia is kinda hard (I mean getting them out of their parents' basements and into the light of day is typically rather difficult), so they had to settle for 4 white guys and a black dude.

Since said black dude is unlikely to be, pace Dave Chappelle, a Black Klansman, something was kinda fishy from the start.

Even better, it has been alleged that a couple of the white participants have been identified as a high up members of the Virginia Young Democrats. The Lincoln Project has since taken responsibility for the smear attempt.  In short, it appears that in Virginia you really do need to go to the Democrats to find some people willing to dress up as white supremacist types.

Washington Examiner: Lincoln Project takes credit for tiki torch stunt McAuliffe campaign passed off as genuine Youngkin supporters

Why exactly the Lincoln Project, allegedly just a bunch of "Never Trump Republicans" but otherwise alleging to be Republicans, seem to be fully in the tank for Democrats,  when they are not otherwise engaged in acts of pederasty that is, remains unanswered. But, it's likely all about the money.

The Detroit Reparations Push Silliness Continues

The Detroit News:  Advocates for reparative policy argue 'we can do better' at Mackinac Island conference

The panel talk centered on policy decisions and discriminatory practices that contribute to the racial wealth gap and comes ahead of a Nov. 2 ballot question in Detroit over whether a reparations committee should be formed to study ways to boost opportunities for Black residents. 

Reparations is just another word for money transfer to Democrat favored constituencies.   Typically with such transfer enriching Democrat bureaucrats and consultants in the process.

Now Detroit, if I may remind you, is a city that has been run by Democrats, and specifically Black Democrats for the majority if not the totality of the lifespan of most of its current residents, and with said residents having suffered under the corruption and misrule of said Black Democrats,  not from slavery.  Now apparently said City should pay slavery reparations to its Black residents - said residents who have never been slaves in their entire lives.

Does that make sense to anyone?  At all.

Basically it is a quest for free stuff:

Hamilton said during the Tuesday talk that society will never move forward from racism until reparations are addressed. 

"If we want to have solutions, we need to honestly grapple with reparations," said Hamilton, adding that alone "is not enough."

"...we need a government that promotes anti-racist economic rights that ensures that people have a birthright to capital, quality housing, quality health care," he said.

There is no such thing as a "birthright to capital, quality housing, quality health care"  you earn each of those things by virtue of work, savings, and effort.  It's not given to you.  Assuming such a birthright is absolute magical thinking and part of the problem here.  Also, assuming Blacks cannot achieve any of these things on their own is also part of the problem here.

But the article and the statements made by these race hustlers get even funnier:

Note the subtle anti-white racism among the "anti-racists":

Goss added she finds it "disturbing" only six of Detroit's 11 middle-class neighborhoods grew in the most recent U.S. Census and "only because upper, middle-class white families moved in." 

. . .

For the rest of the city, opportunities for middle-class families where housing can be stabilized and where small businesses can grow are needed "without that gentrifying factor," she said.

Yep, curse those gentrifying white people and their (checks notes) increasing of property valuers and increased small business presence in a city rather bereft of them.

On top of that, the hilarity that one can say something with a straight face and then argue for the exact opposite is rather funny.

[Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and founding director of Institute on Race and Police Economy] Hamilton said change will begin when "somebody's race or ethnicity no longer has transactional value."

Wait a sec, transactional value of someone's race is exactly what he himself is advocating for: Blacks, by virtue of Being Black should get these "reparations"  - If that's not race having "transactional value" one wonders what is so in his book.

The next funny bit in the article:

Perry has conducted research on housing and authored the book "Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities."

Through his work, he found homes in Black neighborhoods are underpriced by 23%, about $48,000 per home, "cumulatively, that's about $156 billion in lost equity," he said.

Wait just a minute here.  

Let's note that the City of Detroit which again is majority Black and at the time was completely Black-run, has been properly castigated for overvaluing Black (and everyone else's homes) to the tune of over $600 million in overvaluation - causing residents to pay higher and in some cases ridiculous taxes on their properties - leading to foreclosure of (you guessed it) Black-owned properties due to non-payment of the improperly high taxes.

You really can't have it both ways, unless you're a Democrat or progressive "thinker" apparently.

Having the City of Detroit vote to pay reparations to its residents is a joke.  Having the State of Michigan which was not a slave state pay any reparations is a joke when the last slave here was before the civil war is similarly a joke.  Pushing reparations for people who have never been slaves is a joke. But, it's apparently a very profitable and politically popular joke to Democrat race hustlers and consultants and for their constituents looking for money for nothing.

Attacks On Asian Americans: Not Exactly By A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Recently, there has a been a spate of attacks against Asian Americas. Of course Trump is being blamed for these attacks rather than the perpetrators - for example: Man Arrested In San Francisco Stabbing Of 2 Asian Women.

Many activists blame the uptick in anti-Asian violence on xenophobic rhetoric and the use of racist language by former President Donald Trump and others to describe the coronavirus. 

Funny, the attackers hardly seem to be the stereotypical Trump followers as painted by the media.

Indeed, media reports downplay, if not completely neglect to mention who is doing the attacking.  And for good reason - if they did the whole blame Trump followers narrative for the attacks would fall apart.

Take Newsweek for example - they even list all the recent publicized attacks and don't mention even once in their story that the attackers were Black.   

ABC for example in the New York attack by a woman with a hammer similarly neglected to mention the race of the attacker.

Rather curious, that.

Indeed, the latest, a knife attack in San Francisco on two elderly Asian ladies was by a fellow named Patrick Thompson.  Almost every report completely glossed over the ethnicity of the arrested Mr. Thompson even after he was in custody.  They would report his name, age, and criminal history but not his race, which was a clue.  Take a look through the results of the Google search for more examples of how a rather relevant characteristic of the attacker is glossed over amnd how many you have to go through to find it.

Finally, a CBS website showed a picture of the scumbag which is the only way you learn his ethnic identity: Source: Man Arrested For Stabbing 2 Asian Woman in San Francisco Has Lengthy Arrest History.

Surprise! He's not exactly a White Trump supporter - at all.  Also not surprisingly, he has a violent criminal history and has been arrested over 24 arrests in the last 20 years including previous stabbings, and yet is free to walk the San Francisco streets. He also likely has mental issues and again is free to roam and attack people.

For our media and their current obsession with race, its rather curious this gets such a lack of coverage - but not surprising given the reality.

The fact that Blacks commit hate crimes against Asians way out of proportion to their percentage of the population (over 27% of hate crimes and  the majority of violent attacks against Asians are by Blacks, who account for 13% of the population) hurts critical racial theory and the current narrative  that white supremacists (when those few who do actually exist manage to crawl out of their mom's basement)  must be the ones to blame.   I'm sure we will get some white supremacists crawling out form under a rock and doing a hate crime - which will then be trumpeted by the media far and wide, with their ethnic background prominently reported - until then, expect crickets.

In short, if the media glosses over the identity of the attacker of an Asian you can likely guess the nature of the attacker, and that the media is still trying to sell the rather now threadbare tale that these attacks are by white Trump fans against Asians.  To do otherwise might require some reporting on some facts the media would rather not report upon.

GM Folds

And in record time, too.

The Detroit Free Press: GM CEO Mary Barra to meet with Black media owners days after they call her racist

The media owners refused to meet with GM's head of marketing, so Barra after being called a racist by them is going to meet with them.

Playing the race card sure brings in the Danegeld.

So With The Race Card Played, Will GM Pay The Danegeld?

The Detroit Free Press: Full-page ad blasts GM CEO Mary Barra as racist

As one might expect, it's all about the money.

A groupd of Black publications including Ebony which is now only available digitally after going bankrupt, demanded that Mary Barra meet with them to give them more advertising dollars or they'd play the race card.   She didn;t immediately do so, so they did.

It's based on a false premise that presupposes that Blacks only use Black Media to see things, and eyeballs on ads and that the ads lead to the eyeballs going forth and buying the product is the only thing that matters in the world of advertising.   How may subscribers to the now free digital edition of Ebony exist and are there, and are there more effective ways to advertise to them and many others such as on TV and other media with larger subscriber bases and regular viewers?

Basically this is another shakedown for money and we will see if GM bends the knee.

Not Only An Abhorent Announcement Of Discrimination, But Also Unconstitutional

The Detroit News:  Lawsuit by white Michigan State Police sergeant claims racial, LGBT discrimination.

A female gay white sergeant was allegedly passed over for promotion as a post commander in a favor of an African-American female who was allegedly less qualified, and allegedly had lied in the course of her employment.

The interesting part of the article however is the report of a pronouncement apparently made publicly by the commander of the Michigan State Police:  

Each of the suits points to comments state police director Col. Joseph Gasper reportedly made at a public meeting on Oct. 8, 2019, in which he said the agency was "way too white and way too male," and added that he planned to set aside 25% of future job openings for minorities, and 20% for females.

That certainly constitutes racial set-asides now doesn't it?

A little problem is that such affirmative action and set asides violate the Michigan Constitution Section 26(2):

The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

That's going to be a problem and his pronouncement just opened the door to lots of discrimination lawsuits by potential new hires turned down because they may be too white or too male, and from current members of the force that may be passed over for promotion based on their being too white or too male.

The Michigan State Police currently has a well-deserved reputation and is renowned for being composed of capable and highly-skilled law enforcement officers - regardless of their color, sex, or sexual orientation.  

Colonel Gaspar risks this reputation with his misguided and illegal affirmative action plan.