The Progressive Left has found a new excuse for explaining why cities like Detroit go to Hell in a handbasket once their governance is taken over by doctrinaire socialists with racial grievances. It isn't because of their policies, it's because white folk only let black folk take over after they've "hollowed out" the cities of everything worthwhile.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University -- grievance-mongers this way.
The one place where we have many African-American executives was in the mayor's office. But one of the things that we saw in cities where African-Americans had risen to the level of city hall, was that they inherited what we call "hollow prizes." They became mayor of Detroit just as the auto industry was hollowing out the city, just as the tax base was hollowing out.
Yeah, and, Guess Who else's failures are excused because of the Hollowed Out Prize theory?
Barack Obama, in becoming president, inherited a hollow prize in the United States.
Yeah, it has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.
Teacher's Union, NAACP Sue to Keep Failing Schools Open
According to The MaryHunter at moonbattery.com:
In a perversion of all common sense, a New York Teacher's Union and the NAACP are actually suing to prevent the closing of 19 low-performing New York City schools.
The union said the plan to close the schools violates state law because it fails to consider the impact of the closings on the community. New York City NAACP leaders said the decision will hurt minority students.
Or to look at it another way: the teacher's union implies that the underperforming schools are a benefit to the community. Likewise, the NAACP believes that keeping the failing schools open will help minority students.
The audacity of the entrenched left is something to behold -- fighting for their own interests at the expense of those they claim to want to help.
