I woke up a bit out of sorts this morning. Unsettling daydreams followed by disjointed nightmares can do that to you.
“Out of sorts” escalated quickly to mad as hell when I opened up the online edition of the Detroit Free Press. It informed of both John Mayer’s foot in mouth blah, blah, blah about what it is to be Black in this culture and the announcement that Dave Bing and Robert Bobb were honored as "Newsmakers of the Year by Crain's;" earning each man the label, ‘Change Agent in Charge’.
Mad as hell because after reading the articles I was reminded for the umpteenth time, that in the case of Mayer, the voice of the celebrity fool gets too wide media play, and that in the case of Detroit Mayor Bing and Bobb, the Detroit Public Schools overseer installed by the Governor, the status quo is still picking our leaders for us.
Mad as hell because as it relates to Bobb and Bing, Change Agent in Charge sounds a lot like what Coleman Young used to call HNIC.
In charge of what, in charge of whom? Who put them in charge of America’s “Blackest” city, people who think like Mayer?
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