“I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, ‘What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and corn.”

Well, at least he didn't ask if he could go around Detroit and "shoot anyone in a hoodie" as former Detroit Chief Financial Officer (a white guy!) Jim Bonsall did...[ Detroit CFO Jim Bonsall, under fire for racial comments, resigns , Detroit Free Press, 10-15-13]

But of course, thought on racial matters (as Thomas Sowell hoped might come) is not allowed or tolerated in America, for if such were allowed to occur, more people might come to the obvious conclusion that Detroit's historic bankruptcy falls squarely on the shoulders of its black population.

All a white person, who dares broach taboo subjects, can do in America is kneel before his black master and apologize; for a white person is nothing more than a slave to supporting black dysfunction and forced into (in many cases willing) submission to never, ever mention that such dysfunction is byproduct of the black community. [ Detroit pastor demands Patterson apologize, meet with community leaders , Detroit News, 1-21-14]:

A Detroit pastor and community activist Tuesday called on Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to publicly apologize and commit to a meeting with regional leaders, including the county executives of Wayne and Macomb counties, the religious community and business leaders in Detroit.

“We’re not talking about Cobo. We’re not talking about a suite downtown,” the Rev. Charles Williams II said during a news conference at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church. “We’re talking about here in the ’hood. Let’s gather for a real conversation on how we heal the racial divide.”

The racial divide has been a festering wound for decades, whereby no amount of stitching, ointment, or surgery could heal; for the white population of America has never been allowed to voice any criticism of black America, that wasn't immediately shouted down with screams of 'racism' from Organized Blackness and its many white allies of the continued white dispossession.





Again, no one involved with the respectable media (or aligned with what is loosely known as Conservatism Inc.) dares bring up the black elephant in Detroit's room, for doing so would immediately unravel the narrative white oppression and racism is to blame for black America's descent into unbelievable dysfunction.





When, in fact, the descent into dysfunction (or regression to the mean) is nothing more than black people unlocking their DNA potential and reverting a civilization white people created to something of their design.





Detroit.





Kevin D. Williamson, an editor over at National Review, wrote a short essay for Encounter Books titled What Doomed Detroit. Clocking in at only 34 pages, Williamson's monograph can be read in a single sitting.





It opens a tiny window into the racial reality of Detroit's demise, though so few will read this (what amounts to a pamphlet) work the winds of truth it could unleash will be forever shut.





Here are the main nuggets of racial wisdom Williamson leaves the reader with, facts obviously well known to L. Brooks Patterson (and the guiding light behind turning Detroit into a fortified 21st Indian Reservation, with the barbed wire facing into the city):

Contrary to the National Observer's observations, Detroit's population had peaked in the 1950 census. It soon was losing more than 20,000 residents a year on net. But that does not begin to tell the whole story. From 1960 to 1970, Detroit lost 158,662 people on net - some 22,000 in 1966 alone. But it lost nearly twice that many white residents: 344,093 of them from 1960 to 1970. In 1950, there were 1.5 million whites living in Detroit, virtually all of whom - all but 75,000 - would leave by 2010. Throughout the 1960s and beyond the combination of higher taxes, crime, civil disorder (especially the 1967 riots), and the declining quality of schools and other government institutions created enormous pressure for people and businesses to relocate outside the city limits. The new plants serving the increasingly decentralized automobile industry moved outside the city, and the workers - also the taxpayers - followed them. The white residents, being generally better off and more able to secure jobs and housing elsewhere, lead the way. (p.16)

But why did the quality of schools and other government institutions deteriorate so fast? Could it be because they became increasingly black?





Yes.





It's really that simple.





Race explains every thing.





Especially the demise of Detroit.





Williamson would lightly make this point, as he would write in What Doomed Detroit:

Mohandas K. Gandhi famously told representatives of the British Raj that India, like any self-respecting country, would prefer bad government under its own people to good government under a foreign power. A similar notion has held sway in Detroit, but its motivating factor is racism rather than nationalism.

Detroit is a city in which black identity politics has trumped, and continues to trump, every other consideration, from basic finances to public safety. In 1974, Detroit's racial politics would come to full fruition with the election of Mayor Coleman Young, an incompetent administrator, a friend of corruption - two of his closest political allies, who happened to be serving as police chief and deputy police chief, managed to loot $2.6 million from city funds between the two of them - and practitioner of poisonous racial politics who nonetheless managed to keep himself in the mayor's office for 20 years, thereby foreclosing any opportunity the city might have had to reverse its course. As James Q. Wilson put it, "In Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young rejected the integrationist goal in favor of a flamboyant, black-power style that won him loyal followers, but he left the city a fiscal and social wreck.” Young's stock-in-trade was blaming whites for the problems of an increasingly whites-free city, charging that, in his words, "the money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people.

As Nolan Finely notes in the Detroit News, Mayor Young's spirit is very much alive in the "black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council." Finely reported on the city council's debate regarding the expansion of a city convention center. Many of those backing the project, and many of the union members who would be employed to work on it, were white, which infuriated both the council members and the residents who showed up to denounce the project. The assembled crowd shouted that whites addressing the issue should "go home," while council president Monica Conyers dismissed the case of a white union representative with these words: "Those workers look like you - they don't look like me."