Council Member Kwame Kenyatta told the Detroit Free Press, “We as a community and as a people can agree to disagree but at the end of the day we have to decide what our destiny is going to be before someone comes in as a master, as someone to control the plantation. We don’t need someone else’s consent to do the business that the people put us in charge of.”
I enjoyed this rebuttal over at Walter Russell Mead’s blog on The American Interest:
“Plantation”? “Plantation” is a colloquialism for a prosperous place where white people live good and make money from the back-breaking labor of black people.
Detroit is a place where the predominantly black population doesn’t work but receives handouts from white middle and upper-middle class taxpayers in the form of food stamps, welfare, health benefits, etc. Rather than being prosperous, the whole thing is collapsing. “Plantation”? OK, you can start calling me a racist now. Just remember, I wasn’t the one who made this a racial issue."
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Plantation
Via Tom Stedman
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Plantation? Way I look at it - I'm the guy funding unemployment benefits, food stamps, health benefits, public transportation, school lunches, mental health care, subsidized housing, emergency room visits, etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteSeems as though from this side of the table, I'm the one working on the "plantation" to feed the Master.
Mozart
I'm the one working on the "plantation" to feed the Master.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, but we should, because we have been extorting, torturing and raping minorities since the Stone Age......:)
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