Detroit is Haiti: Unforgivably Black February 18, 2010 By Charles Brown The Detroit rebellion of 1967 had the impact of crystalizing an economic embargo that had then been developing for 15 years on the city. The relationship of business to Detroit since then is something like the relationship of world capitalism to Haiti since the revolution there a couple of centuries ago. In Detroit, there was the bullet and then the ballot, a la Malcolm X in reverse: The rebellion and then the election of Coleman Young as Black mayor, extraordinaire. For this, and really for being an 85 percent Black population, Detroit is still under economic blockade punishment by the powers-that-be. These were the culmination of a socioeconomic, historical shift, which was marked by segregating residence based on race through white flight to the suburbs, especially beginning in the 50s, escaping the move toward integration represented in open housing law (see Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis; Coleman Young, Hardstuff). It was also part of a relative scattering of some main points of industrial production from a concentration in the city of Detroit (and Dearborn) to the surrounding suburbs. It was a breaking up of the Arsenal of Democracy, which had many leftwingers,naturally. In a way, it seems to have been a shift of the location of basic production from the mid West to the South, from the U.S. to other countries, in what gets termed post-industrialism, post-Fordism, restructuring. The concentrated proletarian powerhouse was busted up and racially resegregated on the typical American model, Black vs. white. The bourgeoisie cannot really undo what they have done. They are hoisted on their own petard. Detroit is a pariah society in the national media still. White masses are shy to move back in to Detroit, desegregate. The bourgeoisie will not invest in an African town, like this, with so few white people to benefit. They must blockade us like Cuba, or Haiti. Like the great Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the World, Jack Johnson, Detroit is unforgiveably Black and Proud. I take that back. They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so that most of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit and skate, their forte. So, TIME magazine, several months ago, had a cover story that poverty in Detroit today is in part due to the rebellion of 1967, cause and effect, politically and economically, case closed. Actually, it is. The bourgeoisie are still punishing the rebellion, among other things. Perhaps, TIME was making a confession. With Umoja, Ujima and Ujamaa Detroit and Haiti will be champions again ! coreysviews.wordpress/2010/02/18/detroit-is-haiti-unforgivably-black/ Source: michigancitizen/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=76&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=8274&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1070&hn=michigancitizen&he= Share this: More Like this: Posted in: News, Politics & Opinions Post navigation ← Older Newer → One Response Detroit is Haiti: Unforgivably Black « Coreys Views
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