Jackson and DEGC don't respect Detroit or Detroit history

[Detroitnerd]

I have seen George Jackson. I saw him dining at the Rattlesnake Club one day. He and his co-diner were perhaps the only people there on that day. His car was probably waiting for him, his folders filled with information the developers and "stakeholders" want him to know. He is clearly hooked in with the biggest movers and shakers in town.

But ... who cares? How does this qualify him to make any decisions?

I have never seen him put on a hardhat and hire engineers to tour buildings.

But neither have I seen George Jackson leafing through Detroit history at the Burton Collection.

I have never seen George Jackson sketching the skyline of Detroit from a chair on the riverfront.

I have never seen George Jackson ride a city bus or walk anywhere.

Also, I have never seen George Jackson talking with ordinary people on the street.

Why does one person have this much power when he's clearly divorced from its people and its history?

[HazenPingree]

There is also something wrong with someone wielding so much power and not living within city limits. If I'm not mistaken, he's a Southfield resident, no? I don't have a problem with Southfield or Southfieldians, but if you're going to run the DEGC, it's pretty uncouth to not live within city limits.