Detroit's Racial Intolerance: John Conyers' Wife Banishes White Witnesses
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, presides over a hearing where white witnesses are advised to leave the room. Congressman Conyers joined the Judiciary Committee in 1965, when the Chairman was Emanuel Celler and the ranking was Republican William McCulloch, co-sponsors of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What would they have thought of this? As a nation, we have become more tolerant and inclusive in the years since 1965. Detroit, alas, seems to have moved in the opposite direction.
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Racism and Detroit
Black people wish to get revenge. I am Black and I live in Detroit. Trust me, many of the older people still think in the same way as 1965. And the Socialist Democrat party has done well turning hard working Blacks who sought out civil rights into lazy race complaining and baiting government drones who vote Democrats whenever they are told.
Do Whats Right
Since when does doing what’s right is made fun of .How about all the people who died & are still dying for all our human rights. I guess its all right to say go home, you’re not like us. I tell all of you readers that this is MODERN racism. I think that some would say its pay back for a life & Time that we didn’t live but still have to pay for they’re sins . Does that mean if someone breaks the law that I don’t know but if they’re my color I have to pay for they’re crime. Enough, its time we all come together as one family, one voice one Nation. If we don’t then all our children will pay for our ignorance.
Detroit
hahahahaha Detroit,,,,a bunch of idiots.
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