How About Twenty-Five Billion to Save Detroit, the City

Recently I wondered what if the past and current administrations had invested the roughly fifty billion dollars that it “invested” in the auto industry in redeveloping the city of Detroit?

What If the federal government had invested half the amount of money that it invested in Chrysler and G.M., which is about twenty-five billion to redevelop the city of Detroit? What might  the results be?  I believe that such an investment would have lifted up the overall auto industry in Motown?

Today there is no other word to describe Detroit other than just sad. You walk around downtown as I did a few months ago and you see all these great old tall buildings and it makes you cry to think about how awesome a downtown this once was.

Using twenty-five billion in redevelopment capital targeted towards making Detroit a World Class city once again verses Bailing out G.M. and Chrysler with fifty billion dollars might have been a better investment. After all both companies still went into bankruptcy and are being sold off in parts to other auto makers. We could have just saved that fifty billion and just let the business cycle be fulfilled under the capitalist system we believe in..

Who would have thought back when the government was debating what to do to save the auto industry other than me, that a better way to help the “Big Three” is to rebuild the city of Detroit. History has repeatedly demonstrated the obvious, and that is a region goes up together, as well as, falls down.

When a city or region is infused with a massive amount of targeted development and redevelopment, you not only reinvigorate the city, but also the industries and businesses in that region, as well as bring in new industries and businesses to meet the needs of a reborn World Class City.

Twenty-five billion would go a long way in making this, my dream, a reality.

President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Might Dismay Many

Would there be disappointment, surprise or acceptance by black americans if President Obama does not select an African American woman? One to replace the seat being vacated by Justice David Souter. I would answer affirmatively to all the above..

I can see the comments coming my way after publishing this article. I will be called racist, sexist, selfish, divisive etc.

I will respond, if race and gender should not be considered then the Court would still look like it did for the great majority of its history.

I would be very surprised due to the fact that Obama is in a unique and historical position in American History, as such his selection of an African American Negro woman would be far greater than just another “First” making “History”

The greater history to the world is that a Black Negro Woman, not dark skinned immigrants, who are often confused with or are legalized as, African Americans. No disrespect to them. I just want to make it perfectly clear the specific race of people to whom I am referring. The direct descendants of America’s Slaves who paid for our freedoms again and again.

The message that this would say to America and the world is that a Black woman is now one of the guardians of Our Constitution.

She, along with the other Justices, will be responsible for interpreting Our Constitution. This act would entrust to a decedent of the American Slaves a Constitution that was once interpreted to justify Slavery. Why am I bringing up History, one might ask or say. “The past is the past and can’t be undone” etc. And I get that too. but at the same time, I like to put the issues of our time in historical perspective for me to fully appreciate its significance
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