Farrakhan's influence in Detroit?
Not much of a follower of religion or its leaders, but Louis Farrakhan has a lengthy speech on Youtube where he addresses Detroit City Council. He proposes a $1 donation per month from each Detroiter. If he can get $1 from 500,000 people, that's $2m after four months, he says. He proposes using the funds to buy Detroit's abandoned buildings, assuming they haven't become too structurally unsound and can be saved. Surely this is a simplistic answer, and how much ownership percentage of the buildings do I get with my buck contributions?
Don't Play Farrakhan cheap
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Not much of a follower of religion or its leaders, but Louis Farrakhan has a lengthy speech on Youtube where he addresses Detroit City Council. He proposes a $1 donation per month from each Detroiter. If he can get $1 from 500,000 people, that's $2m after four months, he says. He proposes using the funds to buy Detroit's abandoned buildings, assuming they haven't become too structurally unsound and can be saved. Surely this is a simplistic answer, and how much ownership percentage of the buildings do I get with my buck contributions?
Farrakhan is very influential here in Chicago and in Detroit. Long history. Black Muslims were the only group back in the day that took the winos and drug addicts and converted them.
Anyway, his idea is a good one. Not anything new. I believe HIS org. does something similar in Chicago and they own a lot of property and land. Quiet as it's kept.
But the idea is so simplistic you wonder why no one else thought about it. Truth is, Black Detroiters better start buying some land and holding on to it. Because the downtown will be spread out beyond Woodward and Midtown as it grows. It may be a long time coming but it's coming.
