Bing closing 50 parks

**cla1945** · February-01-13, 03:36 PM

Round up all those racists who were in the peanut gallery during clowncil meetings about Belle Isle, get Watson and Kenyatta, give them all rakes, shovels, and garbage bags and have them clean up the parks when they start to stink. Clowncil was intimidated by these people, let them run the show, now they face the consequences of giving the City of Detroit no parks at all!

What a bunch of unintelligent people.

**Zacha341** · February-01-13, 04:42 PM

That would be vision! To even have them initiate or promote such a community event would be shocking!

Originally Posted by cla1945

...Watson and Kenyatta, give them all rakes, shovels, and garbage bags and have them clean up the parks when they start to stink.

**downtownguy** · February-02-13, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by cla1945

Round up all those racists who were in the peanut gallery during clowncil meetings about Belle Isle, get Watson and Kenyatta, give them all rakes, shovels, and garbage bags and have them clean up the parks when they start to stink. Clowncil was intimidated by these people, let them run the show, now they face the consequences of giving the City of Detroit no parks at all!

What a bunch of unintelligent people.

When your posts don't reek of racism, maybe I'll take them more seriously.

**cla1945** · February-02-13, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by downtownguy

When your posts don't reek of racism, maybe I'll take them more seriously.

Are you actually saying that I'm incorrect in my assumptions that most of the people in the audience at the council meetings regarding Belle Isle, and that Watson and Kenyatta are not racist?

I don't care if you take me seriously or not, my opinions are mine.

**downtownguy** · February-03-13, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by cla1945

Are you actually saying that I'm incorrect in my assumptions that most of the people in the audience at the council meetings regarding Belle Isle, and that Watson and Kenyatta are not racist?

I don't care if you take me seriously or not, my opinions are mine.

Of course you're entitled to your opinions as am I. But if you're going to post here, be ready for feedback. I'm so tired of white people [[of which I share membership) using black racists as a reason to justify their own racist rants. And that's how I read most of yours. Prove me otherwise. I'll sleep better at night.

**mwilbert** · February-04-13, 12:30 AM

People saying stupid things, even things with some racial content, aren't necessarily racists. My guess is that Watson and Kenyatta and many of their supporters have deluded themselves about the state of the city for so long that they can't deal with the necessity of ceding some control in order to get help. They sometimes put things in terms of race because that is part of how they [[and a whole lot of other people) look at the world.

But I think it would be a mistake to think that in and of itself that makes them racists. They seem to be people who are committed to an unworkable vision of the city and get overly excited when it is challenged, and aren't any too articulate or careful in their choice of words. But when those idiot Republicans made their inane comments about rape last year, I didn't assume they were misogynists; I assumed they were fools, and I pretty much think the same about Watson and Kenyatta.

**Detroitnerd** · February-04-13, 01:24 PM

So, this is all a manufactured crisis. Bing is "closing" 50 parks [[that is to say, deferring what maintenance there is) and may not even have the authority to do so. So he's overstepping his authority to do something that has little impact to make a big scene in hopes of making Detroit City Council look bad.

And, given the way a lot of people, not all of them racists, hate Detroit City Council, I'm not surprised to see the illusion working on those who want to believe it.

Yes, send Bing back to his gated mansion. Let's get somebody with a vision for Detroit that doesn't come out of corporate boardrooms or nonprofit-funded think tanks.

**Spartan** · February-04-13, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

So he's overstepping his authority to do something that has little impact to make a big scene in hopes of making Detroit City Council look bad.

The mistake was not making a big scene early enough that it would matter

**bailey** · February-04-13, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

Yes, send Bing back to his gated mansion. Let's get somebody with a vision for Detroit that doesn't come out of corporate boardrooms or nonprofit-funded think tanks.

Yes, let's demand they be city/county apparatchiks instead.

**socks_mahoney** · February-06-13, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

So, this is all a manufactured crisis. Bing is "closing" 50 parks [[that is to say, deferring what maintenance there is) and may not even have the authority to do so. So he's overstepping his authority to do something that has little impact to make a big scene in hopes of making Detroit City Council look bad.

And, given the way a lot of people, not all of them racists, hate Detroit City Council, I'm not surprised to see the illusion working on those who want to believe it.

Yes, send Bing back to his gated mansion. Let's get somebody with a vision for Detroit that doesn't come out of corporate boardrooms or nonprofit-funded think tanks.

Can you explain to me why he would not have the authority? If that's the case then who would have the authority to stop him from closing one of, or all of, those parks?