Reparations to Detroit

Talking points for City Council From 2013:

1)      THE STATE IS TRYING TO TAKE CONTROL OF DETROIT’S ASSETS AND
RESOURCES TO GIVE THEM TO PRIVATE AND OUT STATE INTERESTS. THE
DICTATOR LAW
IS A RUSE  TO DO THIS.  THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE DETROIT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDER ENGLER AND GRANHOLM.
2)      THE STATE OWES DETROIT AT LEAST $220 MILLION AND REALLY TWICE THAT
WITH INTEREST.  IF DETROIT WERE PAID THAT MONEY THERE WOULD BE NO EXCUSE
FOR IMPOSITION OF A FINANCIAL DICTATOR.
3)      THIS IMPOSITION OF A DICTATOR IS UNAMERICAN, TAKING AWAY DETROITERS
RIGHT TO ELECT THEIR OWN STEWARDS OF THEIR TAX MONEY- LITERALLY TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENRATION , THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY DEFINITION OF TYRANNY .

 IT IS WHITE
SUPREMACIST VIOLATION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT,  A DESECRATION OF THE
LEGACY OF BLACK PEOPLE’S STRUGGLES FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT.  THE LAW IS BEING APPLIED TO PREDOMINANTLY BLACK
CITIES.
4)      THIS IS A BLATANT VIOLATION OF THE MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION WHICH
PROHIBITS THE CHANGE OF A CITY’S CHARTER WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE
PEOPLE.. WE DEMAND THAT THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT STRIKE DOWN THIS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
LAW.
5)      ALL DETROITERS MUST STANDUP FOR OUR SELF-DETERMINATION. THE
HONORABLE ERMA L HENDERSON, THE HONORABLE COLEMAN A. YOUNG, THE
HONORABLE MARY ANN MAHAFFEY WOULD EXPECT US TO STAND UP FOR ALL THEY
FOUGHT FOR.