Failure of black city rule.

In my new mid-week column on Detroit, I am challenging myself to provide real solutions and not just list a litany of the city's ills, which, sad to say, since my people have been in power for the past 35 years, have literally turned Detroit – a formerly affluent, cosmopolitan and important city, once called "the arsenal of Democracy" and "Motor City" – into "the most miserable city in America."

Like in the Garden of Eden, it all began so pure, with such hope, with such limitless possibilities and promise, but in place of the subtle, crafty snake was a diabolical and baseless philosophical assumption my people have stubbornly believed in like religious dogma – the idea that a black man can govern black people better than a white man or a person of another race, not by his abilities, but because of skin color alone.

While I understand this tribalism ethic, 40 years of black elected leadership in small, medium and large cities all across America has in the main had disastrous results for the majority black populations under their rule. Not because of race, but because of a wicked, failed ideology and political philosophy called liberalism.

"Detroit's middle-finger salute." By Ellis Washington, WorldNet- Daily.com, 2/28/08.