Councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins overstating the obvious. A play for air time?

The Curse of the Obvious, the Cliche, the Pathetic Need to Fill up Airspace.

Today, Councilmember Jenkins uttered these utterly forgettable words to Mayor Bing [[I think it is a problem in Detroit that people mouth such inanities and they get airtime/print). Don't we have any deeper thinkers to report on?

“Think bold; think outside the box,” Councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins urged the mayor. “There is a sense of urgency. The goal is to figure out if we are going to get out of our financial crisis on our own.”

Don't you think he knows this? I know this. "outside the box" is probably banned already.

Every murder report includes the phrase that "he was a good boy." A youjthful victim always "made people smile" or "made you laugh " if depressed.

All this stuff should be banned.

You're right about the phrase but in a sense she is calling him out as well. She is reminding folks that he though he knows there is a sense of urgency he doesn't always show it. Even though he knows how to think outside the box he doesn't do it.

The other statement of he was a good boy uttered by the family of a young murder victim could be a couple of things. One it could be the idea that you don't speak ill of the dead no matter what they did or didn't do, or an inability to hold family members accountable for there actions.