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View Poll Results: Will Detroit start to come back with this new Mayor ?
Yes 7 20.00%
Nope 0 0%
Doesn't matter 2 5.71%
The city is already coming back 9 25.71%
The city needs much more than a new Mayor 12 34.29%
When crime goes down and jobs go up , it will come back 14 40.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-07-2013, 10:10 AM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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Originally Posted by jerseygal4u View Post
Color doesn't matter.

If its the same ole Democrat policies,nothing will change.

Now if they would have elected a black republican,change would have come.

Different race,same party.
Wouldn't Detroit just be like any other southern city with a republican at the helm? The Montgomery or Jackson of the north?
We have done so much to reduce entitlements to let a republican come in and increase the doles..
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Old 11-07-2013, 12:02 PM
 
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This reminds me of when America elected Pros Obama because Bush screwed up so much lol. The same thing happened in Detroit in reverse

As someone who grew up around Detroit, and later lived within Detroit proper...then saw City Council floating the idea of "African Town", and the election of Kwame followed by a LARGE number of Detroit residents thinking he should be pulled out of jail and reinstituted as Mayor....

I have an EXTREMELY difficult time with the thought that a white guy was elected because Detroit residents felt the black guys couldn't hack it...then again, I also have my doubts that this was a legit election as well.
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Old 11-07-2013, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Past: midwest, east coast
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Why would someone from NYC focus on the skin color of a Detroit mayor?

Or any mayor.

That's pretty racist.

We're a little more progressive here and we vote based on the best candidate.
People like you throw around the term "racist" like tic-tacs.

By the way, many "progressive" Americans did not vote based on the best candidate in the previous election, race was a bigger to them.
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Old 11-07-2013, 08:58 PM
 
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People like you throw around the term "racist" like tic-tacs.

By the way, many "progressive" Americans did not vote based on the best candidate in the previous election, race was a bigger to them.
Oh god, please....PLEASE....tell me you aren't saying that Mitt Romney would've been a better president...
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Old 11-07-2013, 09:08 PM
 
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Hey, look, Detroit couldn't get much worse, lets give the white guy a chance
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Old 11-07-2013, 09:31 PM
 
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I like what you have to say about symbolism.

You phrased this very very well. Particularly with such a potentially touchy issue that gets into race, and you tipped into a core point, that rings very true.
It would be nice to think that people are evolving beyond the desperate need to vote for someone who looks like them.

Black men representing majority white districts
Keith Maurice Ellison (Minnesota's 5th congressional district) is the first Muslim to be elected to the Congress. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota.
The district has a very small minority of African Americans.
White 477,221
Black or African American 110,076
Asian 41,020

Alan West won Florida's 22nd district as a black Republican where less than 6% of the voters were black.

A white man representing a majority black district
Memphis has a white Jewsih congressional representative who once swore that a white man could never get elected in Memphis. He was beaten by the son of the former representative who had no political experience and left law school to run for his father's old position. But he persevered and has been representing a majority black district in congress for about 8 years now.
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Old 11-07-2013, 11:00 PM
 
Location: west mich
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Oh god, please....PLEASE....tell me you aren't saying that Mitt Romney would've been a better president...
Yes, the spoon-fed inheritance baby who destroys jobs, steals pensions, and believes that half of Americans are lazy, useless slackers. Great resume for a U.S. president - yet, the right-wing ideal because "white is right" at all cost.
Duggan was elected because of his message, and one wonders how the bashers will spin this.
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Old 11-08-2013, 02:55 AM
 
Location: Past: midwest, east coast
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Yes, the spoon-fed inheritance baby who destroys jobs, steals pensions, and believes that half of Americans are lazy, useless slackers. Great resume for a U.S. president - yet, the right-wing ideal because "white is right" at all cost.
Duggan was elected because of his message, and one wonders how the bashers will spin this.
Your first sentence pretty much proves that media-induced brainwashing is an epidemic in this country.
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Old 11-09-2013, 03:50 PM
 
Location: west mich
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Your first sentence pretty much proves that media-induced brainwashing is an epidemic in this country.
Your point is, it's not true?
Wait, Romney said 47%, not 50%, were slackers who don't want jobs - my bad. Wonder where he got that figure? However he came up with it, his supporters loved it.

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Old 11-09-2013, 03:58 PM
 
Location: west mich
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People like you throw around the term "racist" like tic-tacs.

By the way, many "progressive" Americans did not vote based on the best candidate in the previous election, race was a bigger to them.
Talk about brainwashing - a feelgood, self-validating assumption, and a purely fabricated talking point straight from the mind of Roger Ailes and Limbaugh's mouth. So much for your reliance on "proof", eh?
What is "many" and of what significance is it?
Progressives would really like to be done with the race issue, but it continues to raise its ugly head. The RW solution to "quit talking about it" means they just want to get on with it without scrutiny.

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